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Kate Livingston Willard

Best known for the 1892 novel A Colony of Girls, this late-19th-century American writer left behind a small but memorable place in public-domain literature. Her work centers on friendship, family ties, and the emotional complications that ripple through a close-knit community.

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A Colony of Girls

A Colony of Girls

by Kate Livingston Willard

About the author

Kate Livingston Willard, also listed by LibriVox as Kate Livingston Willard Brush, was an American author born on January 13, 1859, and deceased on September 25, 1898. The clearest work reliably connected to her is A Colony of Girls, a novel published in 1892 and now preserved by sources such as Project Gutenberg, Google Books, and The Online Books Page.

A Colony of Girls is a domestic and romantic novel focused on the Lawrence sisters and the changing social world around them. Modern public-domain listings describe it as a story of family, friendship, and hidden complications set in a close community, which helps explain why it still finds readers through ebook and audiobook editions.

Little biographical information beyond her dates and authorship was easy to confirm from reliable online sources, so her published work remains the best introduction to her. If you enjoy rediscovering lesser-known American fiction from the 1890s, she is one of those writers whose surviving novel offers a vivid glimpse of its era.