Harriet A. (Harriet Anna) Cheever

Harriet A. Cheever, also listed as Harriet Anna Cheever, was an American author whose work was aimed largely at young readers. Surviving catalog and library records show that she published books in the late 1800s and early 1900s, including Madame Angora in 1901.

Her writing is remembered for children’s fiction, especially animal stories and books with a Christian tone. That mix of lively storytelling and moral feeling made her work a good fit for the family and juvenile reading market of her time.

Much of the biographical detail about her seems hard to confirm in major readily available sources today, but her books remain accessible through public-domain and library collections, which have helped keep her work in circulation for modern readers and listeners.