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Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
1810–1886
A pioneering American novelist and editor, Ann S. Stephens helped launch the dime-novel tradition with Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter. Her lively career spanned popular fiction, magazine writing, humor, and Civil War history.
29 Audiobooks
Fashion and Famine
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Sybil Chase; or, The Valley Ranche: A Tale of California Life
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
High life in New York : A series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, justice of the peace, and deacon of the church over to Weathersfield in the state of Connecticut
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The curse of gold
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The Gold Brick
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Pictorial history of the war for the Union, volume 1 (of 2) : A complete and reliable history of the war from its commencement to its close ... together with a complete chronological analysis of the war
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Mary Derwent : a tale of Wyoming and Mohawk Valleys in 1778
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Phemie Frost's Experiences
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Norston's Rest
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
A Noble Woman
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Wives and Widows; or, The Broken Life
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The Old Homestead
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Silent Struggles
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The reigning belle : A society novel
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The ladies' complete guide to crochet, fancy knitting, and needlework
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Myra : the child of adoption : A romance of real life
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Mabel's Mistake
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The heiress of Greenhurst : An autobiography
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The rejected wife
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Doubly false
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The Indian queen
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Palaces and prisons
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The soldier's orphans
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Esther : A story of the Oregon trail
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Bertha's engagement
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The wife's secret
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
About the author
Ann Sophia Stephens (1810–1886) was an American novelist, editor, and humorist. Born in Connecticut, she began writing at an early age and married Edward Stephens in 1831. The couple later moved to Portland, Maine, and then to New York City, where she worked in newspapers and magazines.
Stephens published novels, short stories, sketches, and poetry, sometimes using the pen name Jonathan Slick. Her 1839 serial Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter was reissued in book form in 1860 as the first title in Beadle & Adams’s influential dime-novel series, making her an important figure in the development of mass-market American fiction.
She also edited magazines and compiled Pictorial History of the War for the Union, a two-volume account of the Civil War. Stephens died in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1886.