author
Julia Lestarjette Glover
b. 1866
Best remembered for warm, old-fashioned stories for young readers, this South Carolina writer published books that found a home with Lutheran presses in the Midwest. Her work includes school and family fiction such as Briarwood Girls, still read today through public-domain and audiobook editions.
1 Audiobook
Briarwood Girls
by Julia Lestarjette Glover
About the author
Born on September 25, 1866, Julia Lestarjette Glover was an American author from South Carolina. Public records and library-style sources consistently place her lifespan from 1866 to 1957, and her best-known surviving title is Briarwood Girls, a school story later preserved by Project Gutenberg and LibriVox.
Available catalog and reader sources suggest that she published many books in the 1930s and 1940s, often through Midwestern Lutheran publishers. Her stories were written for younger readers and tend to focus on friendship, family life, and growing up, which helps explain why they still circulate in free ebook and audiobook collections.
Although detailed biographical information is scarce online, her books give a clear sense of her appeal: gentle, character-centered fiction with a strong feeling for everyday emotion and moral growth. For listeners who enjoy early 20th-century juvenile fiction, she remains an interesting rediscovery.