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Belle Moses
Remembered as a lively early biographer, she wrote for both children and adults and helped introduce readers to figures like Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, and Paul Revere.
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About the author
Belle Moses was an American author whose work centered on biography and literary lives. Duke University’s archives describe her as the author of about thirty books for children and adults, and the surviving family papers show how much of her work grew out of careful notes, letters, and research.
She is especially noted for writing Louisa May Alcott, Dreamer and Worker in 1909, a book later described as the first major biography of Alcott. She also wrote Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home and books on figures including Charles Dickens and Paul Revere, making a specialty of clear, engaging life stories for general readers.
Some personal details are less consistently reported in the sources I found, so it seems safest to say that she came from the Moses family represented in Duke’s collection and was the sister of writer and critic Montrose J. Moses. No suitable verified portrait image was available from the pages I checked.