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Caroline Abbot Stanley

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Caroline Abbot Stanley
Stanley c. 1904
Stanley c. 1904
Born1849 (1849)
Callaway County, Missouri
OccupationWriter, teacher
Notable worksOrder No. 11 (1904)
Spouse
Elisha Stanley
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(m. 1871; died 1875)​

Caroline Abbot Stanley (born August 16, 1849) was an American author. Her best known book, the Civil War novel Order No. 11 (1904), was a regional best seller.[1] Her follow up novel, titled A Modern Madonna written in 1906, was adapted into a silent film in 1922 titled The Forgotten Law. [2]

Biography

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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. After the death of her husband, se became a teacher in a school in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In the year she became a full-time writer.[3]

In 1904, she published Order No. 11, a historical novel which took 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.[4][5][6] Order No. 11 appeared on regional-best seller lists in The Bookman in 1904.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Books By Caroline Abbot Stanley [15]

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  • Order No. 11: A Tale of the Border
  • The First Church's Christmas Barrel (1912)
  • The Keeper Of The Vineyard: A Tale Of The Ozarks (1913)
  • Their Christmas Golden Wedding (1913)
  • Dr. Llewellyn and His Friends
  • A Modern Madonna
  • The Master of the Oaks

References

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  1. ^ "Caroline Abbot Stanley". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
  2. ^ Humanities, National Endowment for the (1922-12-31). "Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, December 31, 1922, Image 22". p. 8. ISSN 2378-850X. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
  3. ^ Personal, Missouri Historical Review, p. 423 (July 1919)
  4. ^ Book News Biographies, Book News, p. 977 (Vol. 22, No. 261, May 1904)
  5. ^ (June 1904). Ewing, Thomas, Jr. Order No. 11 (review), Current Literature, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 615–18
  6. ^ Santoro, Nicholas J. Malvern Hill, Run Up To Gettsburg, p. 372 & n. 1225 (2014)
  7. ^ (May 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, The Bookman (for books sold between March and April 1904; No. 1 for Providence, Rhode Island)
  8. ^ (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)
  9. ^ (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)
  10. ^ (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)
  11. ^ (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)
  12. ^ (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)
  13. ^ (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)
  14. ^ (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)
  15. ^ ThriftBooks. "Caroline Abbot Stanley Books | List of books by author Caroline Abbot Stanley". ThriftBooks. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
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