E. A. B. Shackleford

E. A. B. Shackleford is a little-documented American author associated with Virginia Dare: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century, published in 1892 by T. Whittaker. Library and catalog records consistently connect that name with this novel, and some records identify the author as Miss E. A. B. Shackleford.

The book revisits the legend of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the Roanoke Colony, and turns it into a historical romance set against the uncertainties of early colonial life. Modern catalog and reading sites suggest that this is the only work currently attributed to Shackleford in widely available public-domain and library records.

Because reliable biographical information appears to be extremely scarce, it is hard to say much more with confidence about Shackleford's life beyond the evidence of the book itself. What remains clear is that this author left behind a late-19th-century novel tied to one of the most enduring stories in early American history.