author
Grace Ethelwyn Cody
b. 1867
Best known for early 20th-century fiction for girls, this American writer published school and college stories that capture the social world of young women of her time. Her best-known book, Jacquette, a Sorority Girl, has remained available through major public-domain archives.
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Jacquette, a Sorority Girl
by Grace Ethelwyn Cody
About the author
Born in Naperville, Illinois, on December 4, 1867, Grace Ethelwyn Cody was an American writer. A biographical entry in Woman's Who's Who of America, 1914–15 says she was the daughter of Judge Hiram H. Cody and Philomela E. Sedgwick Cody, and that she studied at Northwestern College and the University of Chicago.
That same source describes her as a writer of books for girls, short fiction, and articles, and specifically names Jacquette, a Sorority Girl and Elinor's Junior Hop among her books. Her work fits into a popular early-1900s tradition of stories about school life, friendship, and growing independence.
Some library and catalog records list her as born in 1867, while a memorial record points to late 1866, so even her exact birth year is not perfectly consistent across sources. She died in 1933, but her fiction is still easy to find today through public-domain collections.