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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Harriette Newell Woods Baker (1815–1893)

Baker, Mrs. Harriette Newell (Woods) (pseudonyms “Madeline Leslie” and “Aunt Hatty”). An American writer of juvenile stories; born at Andover, 1815; died at Brooklyn, April 23. 1893. Several of her works have been translated into French and German. She wrote: ‘Tim the Scissors-Grinder’ (1861, sequel in 1862), her most popular work; ‘Up the Ladder’ (1862); ‘The Two Homes’ (1862); ‘The Organ-Grinder’ (1863); ‘White and Black Lies’ (1864); ‘Worth and Wealth’ (1864); ‘Tim’s Sister’ (1864); ‘Wheel of Fortune’ (1865); ‘Courtesies of Wedded Life’ (1869); ‘Paul Barton’ (1869); ‘Fashion and Folly’ (1869); ‘Lost but Found’ (1869); ‘Ingleside’ (1886); ‘This and That’ (1887); etc.