Amy Ella Blanchard

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Amy Ella Blanchard (1856-1926) was a writer of children's literature. She was born in Baltimore, studied art in New York and Philadelphia, and for two years taught drawing and painting in Plainfield, N.J. [1] Her works include:

  • Holly Berries, in collaboration with Ida Waugh
  • Daisies and Raindrops (1882)
  • A Girl of '76 (1898)
  • A Sweet Little Maid (1899)
  • A Heroine of 1812 (1901)
  • A Frontier Knight (1904)
  • Little Maid Marian (1908)
  • The Camp fire girls of Brightwood : a story of how they kindled their fire and kept it burning (1915)
  • In Camp with the Muskoday Camp Fire Girls (1917)

She wrote the "Corner" and "Little Maid" series.