author
Elizabeth B. (Elizabeth Barker) Comins
1846–1922
A 19th-century American writer remembered for stories for young readers, she wrote warm, moral fiction shaped by the everyday lives of girls and families. Her best-known work, Marion Berkley, has stayed in circulation through major public-domain libraries.
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Marion Berkley: A Story for Girls
by Elizabeth B. (Elizabeth Barker) Comins
About the author
Elizabeth B. Comins, also listed as Elizabeth Barker Comins, was an American writer born in 1846 and died in 1922. Surviving library and public-domain records show that she published fiction and verse in the late 19th century, often under forms of her name such as Lizbeth B. Comins.
Her best-known book is Marion Berkley: A Story for Girls (1870), and records also connect her with The Hartwell Farm (1871) and later pieces including hymns, poems, and illustrated literary work. The titles linked to her suggest a writer interested in young readers, home life, and quietly instructive storytelling.
Detailed biographical information about her appears to be limited in the sources readily available online, but her work has been preserved by projects such as Project Gutenberg, the Online Books Page, and library digitization efforts. That continued availability gives modern readers a glimpse of the kind of wholesome, character-centered writing that once had a strong place in American reading for girls and families.