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Harriet Myrtle
d. 1876
A Scottish children's writer who published lively, moral tales under the pen name Harriet Myrtle, she wrote for young readers with a sense of adventure and warmth. Her books appeared in the mid-1800s and included stories such as The Dog and His Cousins the Wolf, the Jackal, and the Hyaena.
3 Audiobooks
Adventure of a Kite
by Harriet Myrtle
The Pleasures of the Country: Simple Stories for Young People
by Harriet Myrtle
The Goat and Her Kid
by Harriet Myrtle
About the author
Born in Scotland in 1812 as Lydia Mackenzie Falconer, she is better known to readers by the pen name Mrs Harriet Myrtle. She was educated in Inverness and Edinburgh, and later became a children's author whose stories were meant to instruct as well as entertain.
After marrying the writer and geologist Hugh Miller in 1837, she helped with his periodical, The Witness, and continued writing her own work. Under the Harriet Myrtle name, she produced around 20 educational and moral stories for children, often described as adventurous and light-hearted.
She also published an adult novel, Passages in the Life of an English Heiress, in 1847. After Hugh Miller's death, she helped prepare his unfinished works for publication. She died on March 11, 1876, in Sutherland, Scotland.