Mrs. A. M. Goodhart

Mrs. A. M. Goodhart is an obscure author whose name survives mainly through Stories jolly: stories new: stories strange & stories true, a children’s anthology first published in London in 1889. In that volume, she is credited with two stories: "The giant fishers of Hertzenberg" and "The story of a silver padlock."

Because so little reliable biographical information is readily documented, not much more can be said with confidence about her life. What can be confirmed is that she was published alongside well-known writers for young people such as G. A. Henty, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs. Molesworth, and others, which places her within the lively world of late Victorian juvenile fiction.

For modern listeners, her work offers a glimpse of the kind of short, moral, and imaginative storytelling that filled family anthologies of the period. Even without a fuller life story, her contributions remain part of the rich tradition of 19th-century children's literature.