Caroline Abbot Stanley

Caroline Abbot Stanley

Stanley circa 1904
Born (1849-06-16)June 16, 1849
Callaway County, Missouri
Died January 13, 1919(1919-01-13) (aged 69)
Fulton, Missouri
Occupation Writer, Teacher
Nationality American
Notable works Order No. 11 (1904)
Spouse Elisha Stanley (1871–75)

Caroline Abbot Stanley (August 16, 1849 – January 13, 1919) was an American author. Her best known book was the Civil War novel Order No. 11 (1904), which was a regional best seller.

Biography

Carolina Abbot was born in Callaway County, Missouri in 1849. She married Elisha Stanley in 1871 at Pleasant Hill, Missouri. Her husband died in 1875, and she then taught school in Kalamazoo, Michigan. After 1896 she became a full time writer.[1]

In 1904, she published Order No. 11, a historical novel which takes its name from General Order No. 11 (1863), a Union Army directive issued during the American Civil War on August 25, 1863, forcing the evacuation of rural areas in four counties in western Missouri.[2][3][4] Order No. 11 appeared on regional-best seller lists in The Bookman in 1904.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Her followup novel A Modern Madonna (1906) was adapted to silent film in 1922's The Forgotten Law.[13] She also published short stories in The Century Magazine.

Stanley died in Fulton, Missouri in 1919, and was buried at Pleasant Hill cemetery.

List of works

References

  1. ↑ Personal, Missouri Historical Review, p. 423 (July 1919)
  2. ↑ Book News Biographies, Book News, p. 977 (Vol. 22, No. 261, May 1904)
  3. ↑ (June 1904). Ewing, Thomas, Jr. Order No. 11 (review), Current Literature, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 615–18
  4. ↑ Santoro, Nicholas J. Malvern Hill, Run Up To Gettsburg, p. 372 & n. 1225 (2014)
  5. ↑ (May 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, The Bookman (for books sold between March and April 1904; No. 1 for Providence, Rhode Island)
  6. ↑ (June 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, The Bookman, pp. 431–32 (for books sold between April and May 1904: No. 1 for Kansas City; No. 4 for Louisville, Kentucky; No. 3 for Providence, Rhode Island)
  7. ↑ (July 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, The Bookman, p. 534 (for books sold between May and June 1904: No. 1. in Kansas City)
  8. ↑ (August 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, The Bookman, p. 622 (for books sold between June and July 1904: No. 4 in Kansas City)
  9. ↑ (Sept 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, pp. 86–87 (for books sold between July and August 1904; No. 2 in Kansas City; No. 4 in Omaha, Nebraska)
  10. ↑ (Oct 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, pp. 174–76 (for books sold between August and September 1904; No. 1 in Kansas City; No. 6 in Omaha, Nebraska; No. 3 in Salt Lake City, Utah)
  11. ↑ (Nov 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, p. 270 (for books sold between September 1 and October 1, 1904; No. 4 in Kansas City)
  12. ↑ (Dec 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, p. 399 (for books sold between October 1 and November 1, 1904; No. 3 in Omaha, Nebraska)
  13. ↑ (31 Dec 1922). At the Theaters This Week, Great Falls Tribune, p. 8, col. 1.

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