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1835–1911
A 19th-century American writer remembered for stories aimed at girls and young women, she also published adventure and historical fiction that found a place in popular libraries of the day.

by Frances Henshaw Baden
Born Frances L. Henshaw in 1835, she later became known as Frances Henshaw Baden after marrying Thomas Edwin Baden. Sources consistently identify her as an American writer, and library and public-domain records link her work to fiction written for younger female readers.
Her surviving bibliography includes Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories and True to the Old Flag, and catalog records show her name connected with late-19th-century popular fiction. Although she is not widely documented in modern biographical reference works, the record that remains suggests a steady career in accessible, story-driven writing for a general audience.
She died in 1911. Because detailed contemporary biographies are scarce, much of what can be confirmed today comes from library, catalog, and public-domain author records rather than from full-length biographical studies.