author
M. E. (Mary Emma) Drewsen
1847–1923
A writer of Victorian-era children’s fiction, she is remembered for gentle stories that mix hardship, home life, and Christian faith. Her books often follow poor or vulnerable children as they find kindness, stability, and moral guidance.
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Wood Cottage : or, Sheltered at last
by M. E. (Mary Emma) Drewsen
About the author
Mary Emma Drewsen was a British author of children’s fiction whose books appeared in the later 19th century and into the early 20th. Library and bibliography records identify her as M. E. (Mary Emma) Drewsen, 1847–1923.
Surviving listings connect her with titles such as Ben and Kit, Rose, Robin, and Little May, Gracie and Grant, Neddie Gardner, and Wood Cottage. These books suggest a clear pattern in her work: stories for young readers shaped by everyday family life, poverty and rescue, and openly Christian lessons.
Little biographical detail seems easy to confirm from the sources available, so she remains better documented through her books than through accounts of her life. Even so, her fiction has continued to circulate through library catalogs and modern reprints, showing a lasting niche among readers interested in older children’s and religious literature.