Sophie Lee Foster

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Sophie Lee Foster

1867–1950

A Georgia writer and civic leader, she compiled a 1913 reader filled with Revolutionary-era stories, poems, and historical sketches meant to make early American history vivid for young readers. Her work grew out of a deep interest in patriotism, local history, and public education.

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Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends

Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends

by Sophie Lee Foster

About the author

Born in 1867, Sophie Lee Foster is best remembered for Reminiscences and Indian Legends, also presented as a Revolutionary Reader, a collection published in 1913. The book gathers short pieces on the American Revolution, notable figures, Georgia history, and related legends, reflecting her wish to make the past feel lively and approachable.

She was also active in the Daughters of the American Revolution in Georgia. Contemporary records identify her as Mrs. Sheppard W. Foster and show that she served as State Regent of the Georgia society in the early 1910s, which helps explain the strong patriotic and educational spirit behind her writing.

Foster died in 1950. Although not widely known today, her surviving work offers a glimpse of how early twentieth-century writers and civic organizations introduced American history to general readers and students, especially through a Southern and Georgian lens.