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Lela Horn Richards

b. 1870

Best known for early 20th-century girls' fiction, this American novelist wrote lively stories such as the Blue Bonnet books as well as novels including Then Came Caroline and Caroline's Career. Her work appeared with major publishers of the day and is still cataloged by libraries and public-domain collections.

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Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's

Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's

by Caroline Elliott Hoogs Jacobs, Lela Horn Richards

About the author

Born in 1870, Lela Horn Richards was an American author whose surviving record today is clearest through library catalogs and digitized editions of her books. The Online Books Page lists her under "Lela Horn Richards, 1870-," and Library of Congress records confirm novels including Blue Bonnet: Debutante (1922) and Caroline's Career (1923).

Richards is especially associated with the Blue Bonnet series for young readers; catalog records and public-domain listings connect her with titles such as Blue Bonnet in Boston. Her fiction suggests a writer interested in spirited heroines, school life, and the social world of young women in the early 1900s.

Reliable biographical details beyond her birth year are limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to keep the focus on her published work and its continued presence in library collections.