author
Ella Farman Pratt
1837–1907
A lively voice in 19th-century children’s literature, she helped shape what young readers found on the page as both a storyteller and a magazine editor. She is especially remembered for leading the popular magazine Wide Awake for many years.
2 Audiobooks
Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land, and Other Stories
by Ellis Towne, Sophie May Farman, Ella Farman Pratt
All the World Over: Interesting Stories of Travel, Thrilling Adventure and Home Life
by Ella Farman Pratt, Lucia Chase Bell, Frank H. Converse, Louise Stockton
About the author
Eliza Anna Farman Pratt, who wrote mainly as Ella Farman and also used the pen name Dorothea Alice Shepherd, was an American writer of children’s literature. She was born in 1837 and died in 1907, and her work became well known in the late 19th century.
She is best remembered as the editor of Wide Awake, a children’s magazine she guided for about 16 years beginning in 1875. Sources also connect her with Our Little Men and Women, showing how much of her career was devoted not only to writing stories for children but also to shaping the magazines they read.
Her books and stories were part of a warm, energetic tradition of writing for young readers, and many of her works have remained visible through library and public-domain collections. A reliable portrait was not clearly available from the sources I checked, so no profile image is included.