Children's Stories in American Literature 1660-1860 (1895)

First published in 1895, this book covers such authors as: Audubon, Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Prescott, Whittier, Hawthorne, Bancroft, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, Motley, Stowe, Lowell, Parkman, and Holmes. According to Wikipedia: "Henrietta Christian Wright is an American children's story writer who resided in East Brunswick, New Jersey... She wrote children's books on literature, history and science. One of her books of children's stories covered a period of 1660-1860 with great authors like Edgar Allan Poe, William Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lowell, and Holmes. Published in 1895, this book was a part of the everyday schooling of young pre-teens."