[Mrs. Isabella H. Foster]. American authoress, born at Oneida Castle, NY, in 1838; graduated in 1860 at the Oneida Seminary, and became principal of the Home School for Girls at Verona, NY. Among her numerous works are In Earnest (1869); Through Patience (1869); Allan Phillips (1874); Louisa’s Mistake (1875); Ripley Parsonage (1877); Echoing and Re-echoing (1878); Millerton People (1883); Could n’t Be Bought (1885); Stories of Great Men (1887); Stories of Remarkable Women (1887); A Modern Exodus (1891); A Baker’s Dozen (1892).
