Augusta Larned

Born| April 16, 1835
Rutland
Died| January 8, 1924 (aged 88)

Augusta Larned (April 16, 1835 – January 8, 1924) was an American author, editor, and suffragist.

Augusta Larned was born on April 16, 1835 in Rutland, New York, the daughter of Zebedee and Sarah A. Etheridge Larned. She began her literary career in 1867, writing for The Independent. In 1870, she edited the women's rights journal The Revolution. For 20 years, she wrote for The Christian Register.[1][2]

Larned lived for many years in Summit, New Jersey. She wrote a book, The Borderland of Country Life (1919), describing the changes the automobile made to Summit, called "Heaven's Hill" in her work.[3]

Augusta Larned died on 8 January 1924.[4]

## Bibliography

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* Home Stories (1872-78), six volumes[2]
* Talks with Girls (1873)[2]
* Old Tales Retold from Grecian Mythology (1875)[2]
* The Norse Grandmother, Tales from the Eddas (1880)[2]
* Village Photographs (1887)[2]
* In Woods and Fields (1895)[5]
* The Borderland of Country Life (1919)[3]

## References

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1. ^ The National cyclopaedia of American biography, being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time. Vol. 13\. New York: J. T. White company. 1906. pp. 462–63.
2. ^ a b c d e f James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, (Eds.). (1887). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (Vol. 3). New York: D. Appleton & Co.
3. ^ a b Raftis, Edmund B. (1996). Summit, New Jersey : from Poverty Hill to the Hill City. Internet Archive. Seattle, WA : Great Swamp Press. ISBN 978-0-9651369-0-7.
4. ^ "Passed Away". Bernardsville News. 17 Jan 1924. p. 3.
5. ^ Brown, John Howard; Johnson, Rossiter (1904). The twentieth century biographical dictionary of notable Americans ... Boston: The Biographical Society.

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