JANE GOODWIN AUSTIN
\d͡ʒˈe͡ɪn ɡˈʊdwɪn ˈɔːstɪn], \dʒˈeɪn ɡˈʊdwɪn ˈɔːstɪn], \dʒ_ˈeɪ_n ɡ_ˈʊ_d_w_ɪ_n ˈɔː_s_t_ɪ_n]\
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An American novelist; born in Worcester, Mass., Feb. 25, 1831; died in Boston, March 30, 1894. She was educated and thenceforward lived in Boston. Her reputation rests on excellent stories describing the Pilgrim Fathers and the early colonists of Massachusetts, and including "Fairy Dreams" (1860); "Moonfolk" (1874); "Mrs. Beauchamp Brown" (1880); "A Nameless Nobleman" (1881); "The Desmond Hundred" (1882); "Nantucket Scraps" (1882); "Standish of Standish" (1889); "Betty Alden" (1891); and "David Alden's Daughter and Other Stories" (1892).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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