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Clara Augusta
1839–1905
A hugely prolific 19th-century American writer, she published under the names Clara Augusta and Hero Strong and built a reputation in popular fiction. Her work ranged across poems, stories, and dime novels, making her a familiar name to magazine and mass-market readers of her time.
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The Fatal Glove
by Clara Augusta
About the author
Born Clara Augusta Jones in New Hampshire in 1839, she later became known as Clara Augusta Jones Trask. She wrote under the pen names Clara Augusta and Hero Strong, and sources describe her as a popular American writer with several hundred titles to her credit.
She worked in more than one form, including poetry and dime novels, and appears to have been especially active in the broad, fast-moving world of 19th-century popular publishing. That mix of range and productivity helped her reach readers far beyond a single genre.
She died in 1905. Though not as widely remembered today as some of her contemporaries, her surviving poems, novels, and reference entries show just how visible and industrious she was in American literary culture of the era.