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Josephine Franklin
Best known for the Martin and Nelly stories, this 19th-century writer created gentle children's books about family life, school, and growing up. Her work has survived through library archives and public-domain editions, with titles like Nelly and Her Friends and Nelly's First Schooldays still circulating today.
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Little Bessie, the Careless Girl, or, Squirrels, Nuts, and Water-Cresses
by Josephine Franklin
Nelly's First Schooldays
by Josephine Franklin
About the author
Josephine Franklin was a 19th-century author of children's fiction whose books were published in the late 1850s and 1860s. Surviving catalog records and digitized editions show that she wrote a long run of books centered on young characters, including Nelly and Her Friends, Nelly's First Schooldays, Nelly and Her Boat, and Cousin Regulus.
Her stories appear to have been written for young readers and families, with a warm, instructive style typical of the period. The recurring Martin and Nelly books suggest a series built around everyday experiences such as school, home life, and moral lessons rather than adventure on a grand scale.
Reliable biographical detail about Franklin herself is hard to confirm from the sources available here, so much of her life remains unclear. What is clear is that her work has been preserved by projects such as Project Gutenberg and major library catalogs, which has helped keep this once-popular children's author in view for modern readers.