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Mrs. E. M. Field

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Nationality
  
Irish

Died
  
1940

Occupation
  
writer

Full Name
  
Louise Frances Story

Born
  
1856
Cavan, Ireland

Other names
  
Mrs E.M. Field, Louisa Frances Field, Louise Frances Story Field

Other name
  
Mrs E.M. Field, Louisa Frances Field, Louise Frances Story Field

Louise Frances Field (née Story, 1856 - 1940) was an Irish novelist who wrote the first historical study of children's literature.

Born Louise Frances Story in 1856 to a Justice of the Peace in Bingfield, Crossdoney, Co. Cavan, Field wrote under the name Mrs Field or Mrs E.M. Field and is occasionally listed as Louisa. She wrote stories for and about children and was known for her writings on the Sepoy Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the Irish Famine.

Works

  • A Brave Girl: The Beginning of Trouble
  • Bryda: A Story of the Indian Mutiny
  • The Way Thither, 1882
  • Denis, 1896
  • Bryda, 1889
  • Ethne, 1889
  • The Child And His Book, 1891/95
  • Little Count Paul, 1894
  • Master Magnus; Or The Prince, The Princess And The Dragon, 1895
  • The Child And His Book, 1896
  • Bid Me To Live, 1898
  • Our Village Candidates Class, 1898
  • At The King's Right Hand, 1904
  • Two Are Company, 1905
  • Castle Dangerous Of Canada, 1913
  • Addresses To Mothers, 1926
  • Mixed Pickles, 1886

    • References

    Mrs. E. M. Field Wikipedia
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