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A. B. Whitney
A warm, morally minded voice from 19th-century America, this writer became known for stories for girls that blended everyday family life with questions of character, duty, and growing up. Her books were widely read in their time and helped shape domestic fiction for young readers.
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Asiatic Cholera: A treatise on its origin, pathology, treatment, and cure
by Elijah Whitney, A. B. Whitney
About the author
Born in Boston in 1824, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney wrote poetry and fiction, publishing under the name A. D. T. Whitney. She began writing for magazines and went on to build a long career as an author whose work often centered on home life, faith, and the inner lives of girls and young women.
Whitney is especially remembered for books such as Faith Gartney's Girlhood and We Girls, part of a body of work that made her a well-known name in 19th-century American juvenile literature. Reference sources describe her as a writer whose stories reflected a strong belief in the moral importance of the home, which gives her books their earnest, intimate tone.
She died in 1906 in Massachusetts, but her work still offers a clear window into the hopes, values, and family worlds of her era. For listeners interested in classic fiction for young readers, she represents a thoughtful and once hugely popular strand of American literary history.