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Mrs. Forrester
A 19th-century American writer who first won readers with lively magazine sketches and children’s books, she later became widely known under the pen name Fanny Forester. Her life joined literary success, religious commitment, and travel in ways that gave her work an unusual range and warmth.
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Diana Carew : or, for a woman's sake
by Mrs. Forrester
About the author
Born Emily Chubbuck in Eaton, New York, in 1817, she rose from a difficult childhood to become a teacher and a successful writer. In her early career she published children’s books and magazine pieces, and the name Fanny Forester became especially well known to readers of popular literary magazines.
Later, after marrying the Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson, she was also known as Emily Judson. Her writing life continued alongside her religious work, and her books and letters helped preserve the story of both her own career and her husband’s mission in Burma.
She died in 1854 at a young age, but her work has kept her remembered in several roles at once: as a determined self-made author, a popular essayist and poet, and a figure of 19th-century American literary and religious life.