Olive Hyde Foster

Olive Hyde Foster was an American writer active in the early 1900s. Surviving records for her books show she wrote practical guides for children, including Cookery for Little Girls, Sewing for Little Girls, Housekeeping for Little Girls (1912), and Gardening for Little Girls (1917), published in New York by Duffield & Company.

Her work has a clear, hands-on spirit: instead of treating home life and gardening as chores, she presented them as useful skills children could learn with curiosity and pride. That practical, welcoming approach helps explain why her books have continued to be preserved in major digital libraries.

Some biographical details about her life are hard to confirm from easily available sources, but memorial records indicate she lived from 1868 to 1943. A reliable portrait image was not clearly available from the sources reviewed, so no profile image is included here.