Mrs. A. M. Goodhart

Mrs. A. M. Goodhart is an obscure author from the late nineteenth-century world of children’s literature. The clearest surviving trace of her career is her inclusion in Stories Jolly: Stories New: Stories Strange & Stories True, a collection of tales for boys and girls that also featured several better-known writers of the period.

Project Gutenberg lists only that anthology under her name, suggesting that very little of her published work is easily traceable today. Because reliable biographical information appears to be scarce, it is safest to describe her as a minor Victorian-era contributor to children’s fiction rather than make firmer claims about her life.

That obscurity is part of her interest now: she belongs to the wide circle of once-active magazine and anthology writers whose stories helped shape everyday reading for young audiences, even if their personal histories have largely slipped from view.