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Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
1810–1886
A pioneer of popular American fiction, she helped shape the dime novel while building a successful career as both a novelist and magazine editor. Her stories mixed melodrama, history, and domestic life for a huge nineteenth-century readership.
28 Audiobooks
Fashion and Famine
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
Sybil Chase; or, The Valley Ranche: A Tale of California Life
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
Norston's Rest
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Phemie Frost's Experiences
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Wives and Widows; or, The Broken Life
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The Old Homestead
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
A Noble Woman
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
Silent Struggles
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
The Indian queen
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The soldier's orphans
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Bertha's engagement
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Esther : A story of the Oregon trail
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Palaces and prisons
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Doubly false
by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
About the author
Born in Connecticut in 1810, Ann S. Stephens became one of the best-known American writers of her day. After marrying Edward Stephens, she lived in Portland, Maine, where she founded and edited the Portland Magazine and also worked on the Portland Sketch Book.
She later moved into New York literary circles and served as an editor for magazines including the Ladies' Companion. Alongside that editorial work, she published a large body of fiction, especially historical romances and serialized stories that reached a wide audience.
Stephens is now remembered in part for Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter, which became the first title in Beadle's Dime Novels series and helped define a new form of inexpensive mass-market fiction. She died in Newport, Rhode Island, on August 20, 1886.