Caroline Abbot Stanley (born August 16, 1849) was an American author. Her best known book was the

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novel ''Order No. 11'' (1904), which was a regional best seller.

Biography

Carolina Abbot was born in

Callaway County, Missouri Callaway County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States census, the county's population was 44,283. Its county seat is Fulton. With a border formed by the Missouri River, the county was organized Nove ...

in 1849. She married Elisha Stanley in 1871 at

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. Her husband died in 1875, and she then taught school in

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. After 1896 she became a full-time writer.Personal
''Missouri Historical Review'', p. 423 (July 1919) In 1904, she published ''Order No. 11'', a historical novel which takes its name from

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, a Union Army directive issued during the

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on August 25, 1863, forcing the evacuation of rural areas in four counties in western

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.Book News Biographies
''Book News'', p. 977 (Vol. 22, No. 261, May 1904)(June 1904). Ewing, Thomas, Jr
Order No. 11 (review)
''Current Literature'', Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 615–18Santoro, Nicholas J
Malvern Hill, Run Up To Gettsburg
p. 372 & n. 1225 (2014) ''Order No. 11'' appeared on regional-best seller lists in '' The Bookman'' in 1904.(May 1904)
Sales of Books During the Month
'' The Bookman'' (for books sold between March and April 1904; No. 1 for Providence, Rhode Island)(June 1904)
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'' 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)(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)(August 1904)
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'' The Bookman'', p. 622 (for books sold between June and July 1904: No. 4 in Kansas City)(Sept 1904)
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pp. 86–87 (for books sold between July and August 1904; No. 2 in Kansas City; No. 4 in Omaha, Nebraska)(Oct 1904)
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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)(Nov 1904)
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p. 270 (for books sold between September 1 and October 1, 1904; No. 4 in Kansas City)(Dec 1904)
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p. 399 (for books sold between October 1 and November 1, 1904; No. 3 in Omaha, Nebraska) Her follow-up novel ''A Modern Madonna'' (1906) was adapted to silent film in 1922's ''

The Forgotten Law ''The Forgotten Law'' is a 1922 American silent melodrama film starring Milton Sills and directed by James W. Horne. The story was adapted from the 1906 novel ''A Modern Madonna'' by Caroline Abbot Stanley. It is not known whether the film cu ...

''.(31 Dec 1922)
At the Theaters This Week
''Great Falls Tribune'', p. 8, col. 1.

References

External links

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Order no. 11: a tale of the border
(The Century Co. 1904), full copy via Google books {{DEFAULTSORT:Stanley, Caroline Abbott 1849 births Novelists from Missouri People from Callaway County, Missouri American women novelists 20th-century American novelists 19th-century American writers 19th-century American women writers 20th-century American women writers Year of death missing