Charlotte E. (Charlotte Elizabeth) Chittenden

Charlotte E. Chittenden is listed by Project Gutenberg as Charlotte Elizabeth Chittenden (1854–1906), and the work most clearly connected with her is the children’s book What Two Children Did. That book, first published in the early twentieth century and now preserved in digital libraries, centers on two children and the small adventures of ordinary life.

Very little widely available biographical information about her survives in major public literary sources, so it is safest to describe her as an American author known mainly for this single recovered title. Even so, What Two Children Did suggests a writer interested in childhood, sibling relationships, and the pleasures of close observation.

Because reliable public records about her life are sparse, many personal details remain uncertain. What has endured is the book itself, which gives modern readers a glimpse of the kind of warm, domestic fiction that once entertained young readers in the early 1900s.