Frances Henshaw Baden

Frances Henshaw Baden was an American writer born Frances L. Henshaw in 1835. Wikisource identifies her as a 19th-century author of stories for girls and young women, and records that she later married Thomas Edwin Baden.

Her surviving work includes Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories, and library listings also connect her with titles such as True to the Old Flag. Modern catalog and reading sites show that her fiction continued to circulate long after her lifetime, especially through reprints and public-domain collections.

An obituary notice preserved through memorial records says she died in April 1911 at about seventy-six years old and notes that she was well known in Washington literary circles in her younger days. The same source describes her as the half sister of novelist E.D.E.N. Southworth, a detail that helps place her within a wider 19th-century literary family.