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Elizabeth B. (Elizabeth Barker) Comins

A 19th-century American writer remembered for stories for young readers, she published works like Marion Berkley and The Hartwell Farm. Writing under her own name and the alias Laura Caxton, she left behind fiction shaped by domestic life, friendship, and feeling.

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Marion Berkley: A Story for Girls

Marion Berkley: A Story for Girls

by Elizabeth B. (Elizabeth Barker) Comins

About the author

Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on May 18, 1846, Elizabeth B. Comins was an American writer whose full name appears as Elizabeth Barker Comins. Library and catalog records connect her with works including Marion Berkley: A Story for Girls and The Hartwell Farm.

Her writing is most closely associated with fiction for younger readers, especially girls' stories from the late 19th century. Project Gutenberg also lists Marion Berkley and notes that she used the alias Laura Caxton.

Comins died in Boston on March 21, 1922. Reliable pages located for this overview did not provide a confirmed portrait photograph, so no profile image is included.