Mary C. (Mary Churchill) Hungerford

Mary C. Hungerford, also identified as Mary Churchill Hungerford and Mary Elizabeth Churchill Hungerford, was an English-born author who lived from 1831 to 1901. Sources consulted during this research describe her as a children's author, and LibriVox specifically notes that she wrote literature for girls.

Her surviving public-domain record is modest, but it shows a writer remembered for books for younger readers rather than for a large modern literary profile. Project Gutenberg lists works under the name “Hungerford, Mary C. (Mary Churchill),” including The Friendly Five: A Story, which remains one of the titles most closely associated with her.

Very little biographical detail was consistently available in the sources reviewed, so it is safest to remember her as a Victorian-era author of juvenile fiction whose books have endured mainly through archival and volunteer library projects such as Wikisource, Project Gutenberg, and LibriVox.