Name Mabel Blodgett | Role Novelist | |
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Mabel Fuller Blodgett (1869–1959) was a novelist and writer of children's books. Born on 10 April 1869 as Mabel Louise Fuller in Bangor, Maine, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ransom B. Fuller. Her father became the president of two insurance companies in Boston. She graduated from the Sacred Heart Convent at Elmhurst in Providence, Rhode Island, and wrote her first novel At the Queen’s Mercy (pub. 1897) at the age of 19. Her subsequent works include:
She also published a non-fiction work, The Life and Letters of Richard Ashley Blodgett, First Lieutenant United States Air Service in 1919. Richard Blodgett was her son, and he was killed in action during World War I (1918).
Blodgett was living with her husband, attorney Edward E. Blodgett, in Brookline, Massachusetts by 1897, when Richard was born. She is buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.