Stella M. Francis

Little biographical information about this author is easy to confirm today, but available library and book records clearly link her to several Camp Fire Girls novels published in 1918. She is listed among the writers connected with the broader Camp Fire Girls novel tradition, a popular branch of early girls' adventure fiction.

Confirmed titles include Camp Fire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains; or, A Christmas Success Against Odds, Camp Fire Girls in the Country; or, The Secret Aunt Hannah Forgot, Camp Fire Girls' Outing; or, Ethel Hollister’s Second Summer in Camp, and Camp Fire Girls at Twin Lakes; or, The Quest of a Summer Vacation. Project Gutenberg also preserves several of these works, which has helped keep them available for modern readers.

Her stories fit the classic appeal of the era: energetic heroines, camp life, teamwork, travel, and light suspense. Even with so few personal details surviving in widely accessible sources, the books themselves give a clear sense of her place in popular juvenile series fiction.