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Elizabeth B. (Elizabeth Barker) Comins

1846–1922

Known for the 1870 girls' novel Marion Berkley, this 19th-century American writer also published work under the name Laura Caxton. Her surviving bibliography suggests a career centered on fiction for young readers and devotional writing.

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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

Elizabeth B. Comins, also listed as Elizabeth Barker Comins, was an American writer born in 1846 and died in 1922. Catalog and library records connect her most clearly with Marion Berkley: A Story for Girls (1870), a school and friendship novel that has remained her best-known work in modern library listings.

Reference sources also link her to other writing, including The Hartwell Farm, and to an 1884 publication of My Faith Looks Up to Thee associated with Ray Palmer. Project Gutenberg lists Marion Berkley under her name and notes Laura Caxton as an alias, suggesting she published at least some work under a pseudonym.

Reliable pages located for her contain bibliographic information but did not provide a clear portrait photograph. Because of that, no verified profile image is included here.