author
Marian Elizabeth Bailey
Best known as the co-author of an early 20th-century craft guide for children, this writer helped turn everyday household odds and ends into imaginative projects. Her surviving public record is very slim, which gives her work an old-fashioned, slightly mysterious charm.
1 Audiobook
Boys' Make-at-Home Things
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Marian Elizabeth Bailey
About the author
Marian Elizabeth Bailey is a little-documented author best known for co-authoring Boys' Make-at-Home Things with Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. The book was published by Frederick A. Stokes in 1912 and later preserved by sources such as the Library of Congress, Project Gutenberg, and The Online Books Page.
The book is a practical, hands-on guide filled with projects for children, encouraging creativity, simple craftsmanship, and the reuse of ordinary materials from around the home. That makes Bailey part of a tradition of early educational writing that aimed to teach by having young readers make, build, and experiment for themselves.
Beyond that collaboration, reliable biographical information about her is scarce in the sources I could confirm during this search. No trustworthy portrait or substantial life sketch turned up, so her published work remains the clearest window into her career.