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Maud Gridley Budlong

Best known for the charming children's fantasy Bobbie Bubbles, this early 20th-century writer helped create a playful story full of bubbles, fairyland, and adventure. Very little biographical information is widely documented, which gives her surviving work an extra air of mystery.

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Bobbie Bubbles

Bobbie Bubbles

by Maud Gridley Budlong, E. Hugh Sherwood

About the author

Maud Gridley Budlong is a little-documented American author whose name survives most clearly through Bobbie Bubbles, a children's fantasy published by Rand McNally in 1916 and credited to her alongside E. Hugh Sherwood.

Modern library and public-domain records consistently connect her with that book, and it appears to be the work for which she is best remembered today. The story's imaginative tone and child-friendly sense of wonder have helped it continue circulating through projects such as Project Gutenberg and other online book catalogs.

Beyond that, reliable biographical details are scarce. Some genealogical and obituary-style records suggest she later lived in California and was the mother of Margaret Wootton, but because comprehensive author biographies are hard to verify, her public profile remains fragmentary.