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Sarah Stuart Robbins
1817–1910
Raised in a family of writers and scholars, this American novelist wrote fiction for young readers as well as a warmly remembered memoir of nineteenth-century New England life. Her books often blend everyday storytelling with clear moral purpose, making them a window into the values and reading tastes of her time.
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Miss Ashton's New Pupil: A School Girl's Story
by Sarah Stuart Robbins
About the author
Born in Andover, Massachusetts, on August 14, 1817, she was the daughter of the biblical scholar Moses Stuart and grew up in a remarkably literary family. Library and author records identify her as an American novelist, and surviving catalogs link her to a long career that stretched across the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth.
Her published work includes novels such as Faithful and True, Tony Starr's Legacy, Squire Downing's Heirs, The Gillettes, and the Win and Wear series. She also wrote Old Andover Days: Memories of a Puritan Childhood (1908), a later-life recollection of the town and household in which she was raised, giving modern readers a more personal side of her writing than her fiction alone can show.
She died in Newton, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1910. Although she is not widely known today, her books remain of interest to readers exploring nineteenth-century American religious fiction, girls' stories, and memoirs of New England family life.