Sarah P. (Sarah Parsons) Doughty

Sarah P. Doughty, whose full name was Sarah Parsons Doughty, was an American author born in 1821 and died in 1884. Library catalogs and digitized editions consistently credit her as the author of children's books such as Stories for Little Children, The Little Child's Friend, Playing Santa Claus, and Other Christmas Tales, and Stories and Rhymes for Boys and Girls.

Her writing was aimed at young readers and families, and the titles associated with her suggest a warm, instructive style common in 19th-century children's literature. Alongside stories and verse, she also wrote Life of Emanuel Swedenborg, showing an interest in religious biography as well as juvenile fiction.

Although detailed biographical information is not easy to confirm from the sources available here, her surviving books show a steady career as a writer whose work was widely printed and preserved. Today, she is remembered mainly through those digitized volumes, which offer a glimpse of the values, storytelling, and holiday sentiment of her era.