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Ellen Robena Field
Gentle, imaginative, and full of wonder, these stories turn raindrops, flowers, birds, and changing seasons into guides to kindness and courage. Ellen Robena Field’s work offers young listeners a charming window into the moral world of late-19th-century children’s literature.
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Buttercup Gold, and Other Stories
by Ellen Robena Field
About the author
Ellen Robena Field was an American writer and educator born in Bangor, Maine, in 1869. Her talent for writing appeared during her school years, and in 1894 she founded the West Side Kindergarten while publishing Buttercup Gold and Other Stories, a collection of stories and poems for children.
Field’s writing blends nature, imagination, and gentle moral lessons. Her stories feature personified flowers, raindrops, birds, seasons, and other elements of the natural world, encouraging children to value generosity, patience, love, and wonder.
After her marriage, she was also known as Ellen Robena Field Smalley. She later published Lemon Pigs and Other Stories—Old and New in 1910. She died in 1957, and although much of her life is little documented today, her work continues to be preserved in digital collections and read aloud for new generations.