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Harriott Ely Fansler
An early 20th-century literary scholar and teacher, she wrote clear, practical books for readers and aspiring writers while also helping introduce Philippine literature to English-language students. Her work bridges careful criticism, storytelling craft, and cross-cultural literary study.
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Types of Prose Narratives: A Text-Book for the Story Writer
by Harriott Ely Fansler
About the author
Born in Missouri in 1887, Harriott Ely Fansler was an American writer, critic, and educator. Her published work includes Types of Prose Narratives: A Text-Book for the Story Writer (1911) and The Evolution of Technic in Elizabethan Tragedy (1914), books that show her strong interest in both the craft of storytelling and the close study of literature.
Fansler also taught English at the University of the Philippines; an early edition of Types of Prose Narratives identifies her as an assistant professor there, and it notes that she had previously taught at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She later co-authored The Philippine National Literature with Isidoro Panlasigui, reflecting her role in bringing Philippine writing and folklore into the classroom.
She died in 1945 in Mandaluyong, in the Manila area. Although not widely known today, her books remain valuable for readers interested in literary history, narrative form, and the teaching of literature in the early 1900s.