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Jane Pentzer Myers

A little-known American writer of children's fantasy, she is remembered for a single early-20th-century collection filled with fairy-tale moods, ghosts, and wonder. Her stories invite young readers into a dreamlike world where loneliness, courage, and magic meet.

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Stories of Enchantment

Stories of Enchantment

by Jane Pentzer Myers

About the author

Jane Pentzer Myers was an American writer of short fiction for young readers. Reliable catalog and public-domain sources agree that she is known for Stories of Enchantment (1901), a collection of twelve fantasy tales published by A. C. McClurg and illustrated by Harriet Roosevelt Richards.

Her work blends fairy-tale feeling with gentle supernatural touches, creating stories of enchanted children, ghostly flowers, and strange journeys. Even though very little biographical information is easy to confirm today, her writing has remained accessible through public-domain archives and audiobook projects, which have helped keep her small body of work in circulation.

Because so few verified personal details are widely available online, Myers stands out mainly through the atmosphere of her fiction rather than a well-documented literary career. That gives her book a certain charm: it feels like a rediscovered shelf treasure from the golden age of children's fantasy.