RA Collection: People and Organisations
An author of children’s books, short stories and novels. She was born in Keene, New Hampshire, on August 2, 1856. Her father was William Orne White, a Harvard-educated Unitarian minister. Her mother was Margaret Eliot Harding, daughter of famed portrait artist Chester Harding and Caroline Woodruff Harding.
Born: 2 August 1856 in North America
Died: 23 January 1947