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Louise Stockton

1838–1914

Remembered for warm, old-fashioned stories for children, this 19th-century American writer left behind a small body of work that still feels gentle and imaginative. She is best known for The Christmas Thorn, a holiday collection first published in 1881.

1 Audiobook

All the World Over: Interesting Stories of Travel, Thrilling Adventure and Home Life

All the World Over: Interesting Stories of Travel, Thrilling Adventure and Home Life

by Ella Farman Pratt, Lucia Chase Bell, Frank H. Converse, Louise Stockton

About the author

Louise Stockton was an American author born in 1838 and died in 1914. Public-domain book records and library listings confirm her as the author of The Christmas Thorn, and Other Stories, published by D. Lothrop in 1881, and also list Dorothea among her works.

She appears to have written in a style aimed at younger readers, with an emphasis on short fiction and seasonal storytelling. Surviving references to her work are much scarcer than those for her brother, the writer Frank R. Stockton, though reference sources do identify her as his sister.

Very little biographical detail is easy to confirm from widely available sources today, so her life is mostly traced through her books and library records rather than through full modern biographies. That makes her one of those authors best discovered through the charm of the stories themselves.