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Lettie M. Cummings
An early 20th-century novelist remembered for the 1916 book Professor Huskins, a story that blends science, emotion, and unsettling experiments in mesmerism. Very little biographical information appears to have survived online, which gives the work an extra air of mystery.
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Professor Huskins
by Lettie M. Cummings
About the author
Lettie M. Cummings is known today primarily as the author of Professor Huskins, a novel published in 1916 by Richard G. Badger in Boston, with a Toronto edition from The Copp-Clark Co. The book has remained accessible through public-domain and library archives, allowing modern readers to rediscover a writer who might otherwise have slipped almost entirely from view.
What can be confirmed from the sources available is modest but interesting: Cummings published at least this one novel, and the story stands out for its mix of psychological tension, romance, and early fascination with mesmerism and mental influence. That places her work in a period when fiction often explored the blurred line between science, belief, and the supernatural.
Beyond that, reliable personal details about her life are scarce in the sources I could confirm during this search. In cases like this, the surviving book becomes the best introduction to the author: a small but intriguing piece of literary history, preserved because readers and libraries kept it alive.