author
Mabel Fuller Blodgett
1869–1959
A Maine-born novelist and children's writer, she published her first novel while still very young and went on to write adventure, society fiction, and fairy tales. Her work shows the range of popular storytelling at the turn of the 20th century.
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At the Queen's Mercy
by Mabel Fuller Blodgett
About the author
Mabel Fuller Blodgett was an American novelist and writer of children's books, born in Bangor, Maine, in 1869. She was educated at the Sacred Heart Convent at Elmhurst in Providence, Rhode Island, and her first novel, At the Queen’s Mercy, was written when she was still a teenager.
Her writing moved across several styles. Sources describe her as the author of children's books as well as society novels, and science-fiction reference works note At the Queen’s Mercy for its lost-world adventure story set in Africa, reflecting the tastes and literary influences of its era.
Blodgett died in 1959. Some of her work remains accessible today through public-domain and library collections, which has helped keep her name in view for readers interested in overlooked American popular fiction from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.