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Alexandra Agusta Guttman Lockwine

b. 1863

Best known for the 1911 book Camping, this early 20th-century writer brought the fun, routines, and small dramas of camp life to the page. Very little biographical information seems to survive online, which gives her work an unusual sense of mystery today.

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Camping

Camping

by Alexandra Agusta Guttman Lockwine

About the author

Alexandra Agusta Guttman Lockwine is a little-documented American author whose name is closely tied to Camping, published in New York in 1911. Library of Congress records list her as born in 1863, and Project Gutenberg preserves the book under the name Alexandra G. Lockwine.

Camping presents outdoor life for young readers in a lively, practical, story-driven way, reflecting the growing popularity of organized camping in the early 1900s. The book’s continued availability through major public-domain archives has helped keep her name in circulation even though clear biographical details about her life and career are scarce.

Because reliable sources are limited, it is safest to remember her mainly through this surviving work rather than through a fuller personal biography. Even so, her writing offers a small but vivid window into recreational culture in the United States at the start of the twentieth century.