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Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury
b. 1848
A little-known American writer remembered for a small collection of stories with a warm, old-fashioned feel. Her work survives mainly through public-domain archives, where readers can still find The Potato Child & Others more than a century after it was published.
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The Potato Child & Others
by Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury
About the author
Born in Vermont on January 22, 1848, Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury was an American author sometimes listed as Mrs. C. J. Woodbury or Mrs. Charles J. Woodbury. Records found during this search identify her as Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury and give her death date as February 16, 1927, in Oakland, California.
She is best known today for The Potato Child & Others, a collection published in the early 1910s and preserved by Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive. Because so little biographical material is readily available, her reputation now rests mostly on that surviving volume and on library-style records that keep her name in print.
What makes her interesting is exactly that sense of partial recovery: she is one of many writers whose work outlasted their fame. For listeners who enjoy rediscovered authors, Woodbury offers a glimpse of the quieter corners of American literary history.