American authoress; born on the 25th of February 1831, in Worcester, MA; daughter of Isaac Goodwin; in her twentieth year married L. H. Austin of Cambridge, where, and in Concord and Boston, she successively passed her married life; died on the 30th of March 1894, in the latter city; noted for her books of colonial tales concerning the careers of the Mayflower Pilgrims and their descendants, of which she published about a score. Among the best known of them are Dora Darling (1864), the story of a vivandière; Standish of Standish; Betty Alden; A Nameless Nobleman; Dr. Le Baron and His Daughters; The Desmond Hundred; Nantucket Scraps; and her last publication, David Alden’s Daughter (1892). Some of her stories form a chronological series concerning Plymouth folk, and she left some incomplete manuscripts.
