author
Katherine Stokes
Best known for the early 1900s Motor Maids adventure novels, this writer helped bring fast-moving travel stories and independent young heroines to a generation of readers. Her books mix road trips, friendship, and the thrill of new places.
6 Audiobooks
The Motor Maids' School Days
by Katherine Stokes
The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine
by Katherine Stokes
The Motor Maids in Fair Japan
by Katherine Stokes
The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp
by Katherine Stokes
The Motor Maids Across the Continent
by Katherine Stokes
The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle
by Katherine Stokes
About the author
Katherine Stokes is remembered as the author of the Motor Maids series, a set of early 20th-century adventure novels. Library and public-domain listings connect her name with titles such as The Motor Maids' School Days, The Motor Maids Across the Continent, and The Motor Maids in Fair Japan.
Her fiction centers on lively travel, changing landscapes, and groups of capable young women on the move. That combination gives the books some of their lasting charm: they capture both the excitement of new technology and the era's appetite for adventure.
Very little confirmed biographical information appears to be easily available in major public sources, so she is known today mainly through the books themselves rather than through a well-documented life story. As a result, her work has outlasted many of the personal details about her.