Lucy Foster Madison (April 8, 1865 – March 16, 1932) was an American novelist and teacher.
Born Lucy Foster in
Kirksville, Missouri
Kirksville is the county seat of and most populous city in Adair County, Missouri, United States. Located in Benton Township, Adair County, Missouri, Benton Township, its population was 17,530 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Kirk ...
, the daughter of George W. Foster and Almira Parker,
she graduated from high school in
Louisiana, Missouri
Louisiana is a city in Pike County, Missouri, United States. The population was 3,364 at the 2010 census. Louisiana is located in northeast Missouri, on the Mississippi River, south of Hannibal.
Louisiana is located at the junction of State Ro ...
.
Her father, mother, and brother all died
while she was a teen,
leaving her to care for her two younger sisters. She became a school teacher in Louisiana, Missouri, then in
Kansas City, Missouri
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. In 1890 she was married to Winfield Scott Madison.
In 1893, the offer of a prize by a New York newspaper interested her enough to enter a short story and she won second place. She became a writer of both short stories and novels, plus a compiler of various
Chautauqua
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assemblies.
Her series of "Peggy Owens" stories and other tales for girls were popular early in the twentieth century. Her husband began to suffer ill health, so they moved to a farm near
Hudson Falls, New York
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in 1924. She died there in 1932, a few days after she had a
stroke
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.
Bibliography
* ''A maid of the first century''
(1899)
* ''A maid at King Alfred's court''
(1900)
* ''A colonial maid of old Virginia''
(1902)
* ''A daughter of the Union''
(1903)
* ''A maid of Salem Towne''
(1906)
* ''Peggy Owen, patriot: a story for girls''
(1908)
* ''Peggy Owen at Yorktown''
(1910)
* ''Bee and butterfly: a tale of two cousins''
(1913)
* ''Time's follower''
(1914)
* ''Joan of Arc: the warrior maid''
(1918)
* ''In doublet and hose: a story for girls'' (1919)
* ''Peggy Owen: a story for girls'' (1920)
* ''Lafayette'' (1921)
* ''Peggy Owen at Yorktown'' (1925)
* ''Washington'' (1925)
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1865 births
1932 deaths
19th-century American novelists
20th-century American novelists
American women novelists
People from Kirksville, Missouri
Novelists from Missouri
Schoolteachers from Missouri
American women educators
American children's writers
American women children's writers
20th-century American women writers
19th-century American women writers
People from Hudson Falls, New York
People from Louisiana, Missouri