American writer (1831–1921)
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]
Davis wrote dozens of Sunday School and children's books.[ 2] One of these was The Yachtville Boys (1869), one of the earliest novels to depict baseball .[ 3]
Caroline E. Kelly Davis died on 14 August 1921 in Everett, Massachusetts .[ 4]
Partial bibliography [ edit ]
Little Apple Blossom. The Hillside Library. Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1863.[ 5]
The Yachtville Boys. Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1869. [ 3]
The Sunny Path. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, J. D. Barbee, Agent, ca. 1887.[ 6]
^ 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].
^ prepared by the R.R. Bowker company's Database Publishing Division; in collaboration with the Publicsations Systems Department (1986). Fiction, folklore, fantasy & poetry for children, 1876–1985 : author index, illustrator index, title index, awards index . Internet Archive. New York : Bowker. ISBN 978-0-8352-2272-3 .
^ a b McCue, Andy (1991). Baseball by the books . Internet Archive. Dubuque, IA : Wm. C. Brown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-697-12764-8 .
^ "Aug 18, 1921, page 20 - The Boston Globe at Newspapers.com" . Newspapers.com . Retrieved 2025-03-20 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 )