author
Frances Henshaw Baden
1835–1911
A 19th-century American writer best remembered for stories for girls and young women, she wrote popular moral and domestic fiction with a warm, accessible style. Her work still turns up in digital libraries, where readers can find titles such as A Sweet Girl Graduate and Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories.
1 Audiobook
Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories
by Frances Henshaw Baden
About the author
Born Frances L. Henshaw in 1835, she later became Frances Henshaw Baden after marrying Thomas Edwin Baden. Reliable library and reference pages identify her as an American writer, and several sources describe her as a 19th-century author of stories aimed at girls and young women.
Her surviving bibliography points to a steady career in popular fiction. Works associated with her include A Sweet Girl Graduate, Maggie Miller, True to the Old Flag, and Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories. Modern readers are most likely to encounter her through digitized editions in public-domain collections such as Project Gutenberg, Wikisource, and library catalogs.
She died in 1911. While detailed biographical information appears to be limited online, the record that does survive suggests a writer who belonged to the large and lively world of American popular fiction in the late 1800s, especially fiction written for younger female readers.