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Eliza Orne White
1856–1947
A prolific American writer who moved with ease between novels and children’s stories, she published dozens of books and is still remembered for warm, lively portraits of family life. Her best-known work, A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony, helped keep her name alive for generations of young readers.
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Peggy in Her Blue Frock
by Eliza Orne White
Sally in her fur coat
by Eliza Orne White
A borrowed sister
by Eliza Orne White
About the author
Eliza Orne White was an American writer born in Keene, New Hampshire, on August 2, 1856, and she died in Brookline, Massachusetts, on January 23, 1947. She grew up in a cultured family: her father was the Unitarian minister William Orne White, and her mother was the daughter of portrait painter Chester Harding.
She built a long and remarkably productive career, publishing 41 books, including 29 for children. Alongside children’s fiction, she also wrote novels and short stories for adults, and her work often drew on domestic life, childhood, and New England settings.
White wrote for many years and earned a steady place in American popular reading rather than just a brief literary moment. Today she is chiefly remembered as a versatile late-19th- and early-20th-century author whose stories combined gentleness, humor, and an eye for everyday character.