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Mabel Fuller Blodgett

1869–1959

A late-19th- and early-20th-century American novelist, she wrote children's stories as well as adventure and society fiction. Her best-known title today is At the Queen's Mercy, a 1897 novel that has remained in circulation through digital archives and reprints.

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At the Queen's Mercy

At the Queen's Mercy

by Mabel Fuller Blodgett

About the author

Born in Bangor, Maine, in 1869, Mabel Fuller Blodgett wrote fiction for both children and adults. Available reference sources consistently identify her as an American novelist and children's writer, and surviving bibliographic records show a body of work that included fairy tales, fantasy, and longer popular fiction.

Her most widely remembered book is At the Queen's Mercy (1897), an adventure novel that later drew notice from bibliographers of early speculative fiction. Other records link her name with children's titles such as The Giant's Ruby and The Magic Slippers, suggesting a career that moved comfortably between imaginative tales for younger readers and more general fiction.

Blodgett died in 1959 and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Although she is not widely known today, online library and archive records show that her work has endured well beyond its original era.