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Clara Augusta
1839–1905
A prolific 19th-century American writer, she published under the names Clara Augusta and Hero Strong and produced hundreds of stories, poems, and novels. Her work ranged from sentimental fiction to dime novels, making her a widely read voice of her era.
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The Fatal Glove
by Clara Augusta
About the author
Born in Farmington, New Hampshire, in 1839, Clara Augusta Jones Trask became a remarkably productive writer at a time when women were still carving out space in American literary life. She wrote under several names, including Clara Augusta and Hero Strong, and built a career that reached readers through magazines, story papers, and books.
Trask worked across genres with ease. She was known especially for popular fiction and dime novels, but her output also included poetry and domestic or sentimental writing. Contemporary accounts credited her with several hundred titles, a sign of both her energy and her popularity with everyday readers.
She died in 1905, but her career offers a vivid glimpse of the bustling world of 19th-century publishing. For listeners interested in forgotten literary history, she stands out as a hardworking, versatile author who helped shape popular reading in her time.