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Kate Livingston Willard
An American writer of the late 19th century, she is now chiefly remembered for A Colony of Girls, a 1892 novel centered on friendship, family life, and romance in a close-knit household.
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A Colony of Girls
by Kate Livingston Willard
About the author
Kate Livingston Willard, also identified in modern library records as Kate Livingston Willard Brush, was an American author born on January 13, 1859, and she died on September 25, 1898. Reliable catalog and audiobook sources connected with her surviving work agree on those dates and on her nationality.
Her best-known book is A Colony of Girls, published in 1892 by Dodd, Mead & Company. The novel follows the Lawrence sisters and the small world around them, blending domestic life, youthful feeling, and romance in a style that fits late 19th-century popular fiction.
Very little biographical information about her appears to be widely preserved online beyond basic author records and the continued circulation of her novel through projects like Project Gutenberg, HathiTrust listings, and LibriVox. Because of that, her work itself gives the clearest sense of her voice: warm, observant, and especially interested in the bonds between young women and family members.