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Janie Prichard Duggan
Her stories carry readers from Mexico to Puerto Rico and Italy, blending adventure with missionary life and a strong moral center. Writing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she created fiction for young readers that often reached across borders and cultures.
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The little acrobat: a story of Italy
by Janie Prichard Duggan
About the author
Janie Prichard Duggan was an American author whose books include A Mexican Ranch; or, Beauty for Ashes (1894), The Señora's Granddaughters, Little Cuba Libre, The Little Acrobat, An Isle of Eden, and Child of the Sea. Records from library catalogs and public-domain editions show that her work was published from the 1890s into the early 1900s, often by religious and mission-focused presses.
Her fiction and narrative writing frequently centered on places such as Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Italy. The books suggest a writer interested in travel, faith, and cross-cultural storytelling, with a special focus on missionary work and children or family audiences.
Reliable biographical details about her personal life are scarce in the sources I could confirm. One authority record indicates she died in 1938, but beyond that, the safest picture is of a writer remembered mainly through her books and their window into Protestant missionary publishing of her era.