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Gertrude Weld Arnold
1868–1941
Best known for warm, lively stories for young readers, this early 20th-century American writer also worked as a teacher and journalist. Her books often mix everyday family life with a sense of adventure and curiosity.
1 Audiobook
A Mother's List of Books for Children
by Gertrude Weld Arnold
About the author
Gertrude Weld Arnold (1868–1941) was an American author remembered mainly for writing fiction for children and young readers. Sources about her are limited, but they consistently identify her as a novelist and story writer whose career also included work in teaching and journalism.
Her writing belongs to the era when magazines and publishers were producing large numbers of stories for younger audiences, and her reputation today seems to rest on that body of work. She is still listed in modern book and reader catalogs, which suggests that at least some of her books have continued to circulate long after her lifetime.
Because detailed biographical information is not easy to confirm from the sources I found, it is safest to remember her as a productive American writer of children’s literature from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, rather than attach uncertain personal details.