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A Woman of the Century:   A Crowdsourcing Project of the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries

Popular Boston Publishers

Houghton Mifflin

     Massachusetts born authors who published with Houghton Mifflin include widely popular authors  Jane Goodwin Austin, Clara Louise Burnham, and Alice French, Catholic authors Louise Imogen Guiney and Rose Hawthone Lathorp, translator and author Florence Isabella Hapgood, and former Lowell mill girl Lucy Larcom.

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Roberts Brothers

     Roberts Brothers of Boston had many Massachusetts authors in its stable  Along with the previously mentioned Austin, and Guiney, Roberts Brothers authors included Ednah Dow Cheney, Caroline Wells Dall, Maud Howe Elliott, Helen Hunt Jackson, artist May Alcott Nieriker, noted educator Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and Lowell native Harriet Hanson Robinson.