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Georgia Eldridge Hanley

Best remembered for a charming 1924 children's book about sewing and imagination, this little-known author left behind a small but distinctive place in early twentieth-century juvenile literature.

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The One-Eyed Fairies

The One-Eyed Fairies

by Georgia Eldridge Hanley

About the author

Very little biographical information about Georgia Eldredge Hanley appears to be widely available online. The most clearly confirmed detail is that she is credited as the author of The One-Eyed Fairies, a children's book published in 1924 by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard.

Surviving catalog and archive records show the book was aimed at young readers and connected sewing with fantasy, suggesting a practical, playful style of storytelling. Because reliable sources on her life are scarce, many personal details about her background, career, and dates remain uncertain.

That scarcity gives her work a bit of mystery today. She is remembered less through a public biography than through the survival of her book in library and digital archive collections.