Harriet Vaughan Cheney

Harriet Vaughan Cheney
BornSeptember 9, 1796
Brighton, Massachusetts
DiedMay 14, 1889 (aged 92)
OccupationNovelist
GenreHistorical Romances
SpouseEdward Cheney
Relatives

Harriet Vaughan Cheney (September 9, 1796 – May 14, 1889)[1] was an American-Canadian novelist. She wrote a number of historical romances, among them A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Thirty-Six and The Rivals of Acadia, as well as religious works for children.

  1. ^ New, William (2002). Encyclopedia of literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 197. ISBN 9780387201092.
    McMullen, Lorraine; Sandra Campbell (1993). Pioneering women: short stories by Canadian women : beginnings to 1880. University of Ottawa Press. pp. 89–90. ISBN 9780776603858.
    Other sources erroneously give her birthdate as 1815, which would have made her five years old when The Sunday-School was published and nine years old when her first novel came out.