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Charlotte M. Higgins

A 19th-century children's author remembered for a dreamlike trip to "Cloud-Land," she wrote gentle fantasy with a moral, imaginative feel. Her surviving work has the charm of an early storybook and offers a glimpse of how young readers were entertained in the 1850s.

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About the author

Very little biographical information about this author could be confirmed from the sources available during this search. She is credited as the author of The Angel Children; or, Stories from Cloud-Land, a children's book first published in Boston in 1854.

That book appears to be the main work now associated with her in modern catalogs and public-domain archives. Its title and publication history suggest a writer of imaginative, religiously tinged children's fiction, the kind of moral fantasy that was popular in the mid-19th century.

Because reliable personal details were scarce, it is best to treat her as a little-documented author whose reputation now rests mainly on this surviving book rather than on a well-recorded public life.