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Eleanor Stuart
1876–1920
A sharp-eyed American novelist and short story writer, she published as Eleanor Stuart and drew on both urban American life and her years in East Africa. Her fiction ranges from tough, early realist work to adventurous stories shaped by time spent in Zanzibar.
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Stonepastures
by Eleanor Stuart
About the author
Born as Eleanor Stuart Patterson in New Jersey, she wrote under the name Eleanor Stuart and began publishing young, with stories appearing in major magazines such as Harper's, Scribner's, and McClure's. She was the daughter of Judge Edward Patterson, and later married Harris Robbins Childs.
Her books include Stonepastures, Averages: A Story of New York, The Postscript, and The Romance of Ali. Part of her life was spent in Zanzibar, and that experience also fed into her nonfiction writing, including pieces on East Africa.
Some sources disagree about her dates, but the strongest available references identify her as Eleanor Stuart Childs, born in 1872 and dying in 1952. Because the author listing here gives 1876–1920, that record may reflect older or conflicting catalog data rather than her best-confirmed biography.