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Caroline E. Kelly Davis
BornMarch 29, 1831 Edit this on Wikidata
Northwood Edit this on Wikidata
DiedAugust 14, 1921 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 90)
Everett Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationWriter Edit this on Wikidata
Parent(s)
  • John Kelly Edit this on Wikidata
  • Susan Kelly Edit this on Wikidata


Caroline E. Kelly Davis (March 29, 1831 – August 14, 1921) was an American writer.

Caroline Emma Kelly was born on March 29, 1831 in Northwood, New Hampshire, the daughter of politician John Kelly and Susan Hilton Kelly. She married the Reverend William F. Davis in 1867.[1]


One of these was The Yachtville Boys (1869), one of the earliest novels to depict baseball.[2]

Caroline E. Kelly Davis died on 14 August 1921 in Everett.

No Cross, No Crown; Little Conqueror Series; Miss Wealthy’s Hope; That Boy; Child’s Bible Stories. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71774/pg71774-images.html#IV_CONCERNING_NOW_AND_THEN


The following is a list of her books: Grace Hale; Charley Kempsey's Farm ; Our Father's House ; Charity Barnes, or the Cobbler's Daughter ; Alice Haven ; Carrie Allison, or in the Vineyard ; Daisy Deane; Getty Harding's Mission ; Johnny's Captain ; Papa's Little Soldiers; Matty Frost; Mary's Patience Bank; Little Apple-Blossom; The Child's Bible Stories, 4 vols. ; Little Sermon Talks; The Gold Bracelets; The Home Vineyard; Andy Hall, the Mission Scholar in the Army; Arthur Merton ; A Christmas Story; Bernice, the Farmer's Daughter; Yachtville Boys; Friday Lowe; Little Conqueror Series, 4 vols. ; Little Maidie, 3 vols.: No Cross, No Crown ; Ruth Cheney ; The Old Barracks ; The Upward Path; Baby's Christmas; John Brett's Household; Into the Highways; Penny Rust's Christmas; Two Books; Faithful in Lea.st.[3]


https://archive.org/details/fictionfolkloref00newy/page/245/

Bibliography

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  • Little Apple Blossom. The Hillside Library. Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1863.[4]
  • The Yachtville Boys. Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1869. [2]
  • The Sunny Path. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, J. D. Barbee, Agent, ca. 1887.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Kelly, Giles Merrill (1886). Genealogical account of the descendants of John Kelly of Newbury, Massachusetts. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. [Albany, N.Y. : Munsell].
  2. ^ a b McCue, Andy (1991). Baseball by the books. Internet Archive. Dubuque, IA : Wm. C. Brown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-697-12764-8.
  3. ^ Hart, John S. (John Seely) (1873). A manual of American literature: a text-book for schools and colleges. The Library of Congress. Philadelphia, Eldredge & Brother.
  4. ^ Brown, Candy Gunther (2004). The Word in the world : evangelical writing, publishing, and reading in America, 1789-1880. Internet Archive. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-2838-0.
  5. ^ Writing in the kitchen : essays on Southern literature and foodways. Internet Archive. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi. 2014. ISBN 978-1-62846-024-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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