Martha Russell Orne

Martha Russell Orne was an American author whose published work appears mainly in the late nineteenth century. Catalog and public-domain listings connect her with books and pamphlets such as The Country School: An Entertainment in Two Scenes, Hallowe'en, The Donation Party; or, Thanksgiving Eve at the Parsonage, A Limb o' the Law, and A Manual of Analysis and Parsing.

Her range suggests a writer interested in both instruction and amusement. Some of her works were made for performance or celebration, while others were plainly educational, especially in language study. That mix gives her bibliography a practical, community-minded character.

Biographical details about her life are scarce in the readily available sources, so it is safest to remember her through the books themselves: short, useful, often event-centered works from an era when school entertainments, holiday customs, and home reading were closely linked.