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Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury

b. 1848

Best known for the gentle, old-fashioned story collection The Potato Child & Others, this American writer published under both her own name and the name Mrs. Charles J. Woodbury. Her work has a warm, reflective style that fits readers who enjoy short fiction with feeling and a touch of moral insight.

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The Potato Child & Others

The Potato Child & Others

by Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury

About the author

Born on January 22, 1848, Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury was an American author. Genealogy and public-domain book sources identify her as Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury, also published as Mrs. C. J. Woodbury or Mrs. Charles J. Woodbury.

She is now chiefly remembered for The Potato Child & Others, a collection of short stories that remains available through Project Gutenberg and audiobook/public-domain libraries. The stories are often noted for their interest in childhood, kindness, home life, and the emotional texture of everyday experience.

Available records indicate that she was born in Plainfield, Vermont, and died on February 16, 1927, in Oakland, California. Reliable page-image results found during this search did not show a clear portrait of her, so no profile image is included here.