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Fannie Eliza Ostrander (1859 – 1921) was an American writer.

Born in North Haven, Connecticut, Ostrander was a graduate of the Wisconsin State Normal School; she also had private instruction. She taught school for four and a half years, and became a critic, editor, and writer for a publishing house in Chicago in 1899. She wrote a series of magazine articles titled "New Lines of Thought", and wrote both prose and verse for a number of magazines. She wrote a number of novels and books for children as well. Later in life she lived in New Haven, Connecticut.

Partial works list

• When Hearts are True, 1897
• Beautiful Bible Stories, 1899
• Baby Goose, His Adventures, 1900
• Frolics of the A.B.C., 1901
• The Gift of the Magic Staff, 1902
• Animals At the Zoo,
• Little Pixies Abroad, 1905
• Goose Family Tales, 1905
• Little White Indians, 1907
• The Boy Who Won

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References

1. "United States Census, 1910". FamilySearch. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
2. "Beautiful Bible stories: gems from the Holy Book reset for children". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
3. Albert Nelson Marquis (1915). Who's who in New England: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. A.N. Marquis & Company. pp. 807–.
4. ^ Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries. L.R. Hamersly. 1909. pp. 1275–.

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