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Abby Morton Diaz
Abby Morton Diaz (1821-1904)
Abby Morton Diaz is listed in A Woman of the Century as an industrial reformer, but she was an author, too.
She was writing fiction by her early forties.
Diaz contributed to
Arena
,
The Atlantic Monthly
,
Hearth and Home
,
The Independent
, and
New England Magazine
,
Our Young Folks
, and
Wide Awake.
Her three 1864 pieces in
The Atlantic Monthly
were "
The Schoolmaster's Story
,"
"
Some Account of the Early Life of an Old Bachelor
," and
"
The Little Country-Girl
."
In 1889, this Plymouth, MA native wrote a piece about her hometown, "
A Plymouth Pilgrimage
," for
New England Magazine
. Ten years later, Diaz, an antislavery reformer, penned "
Antislavery Times in Plymouth
" for the same periodical.
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