Frances Fuller Victor
Frances Auretta Fuller (Barritt) Victor (pen names: Florence Fane,[1] Dorothy D.) (May 23, 1826 – November 14, 1902)[1] was an American historian and historical novelist. She has been described as "the first Oregon historian to gain regional and na
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Frances Auretta Fuller (Barritt) Victor (pen names: Florence Fane,[1] Dorothy D.) (May 23, 1826 – November 14, 1902)[1] was an American historian and historical novelist. She has been described as "the first Oregon historian to gain regional and national attention."[2] She was known for her books about the West and especially Oregon history.She was born as Frances Auretta Fuller in Rome, New York, in 1826, and was the eldest of five sisters.[3] She was a "close relative" of judge Reuben H. Walworth.[4] She and her sister Metta Victoria Fuller became widely known for their writing while growing up in Ohio and Pennsylvania.[1][5] Frances Fuller was educated in a ladies' seminary in Wooster, Ohio.[4] The sisters both published stories and poems in the Home Journal, published by Morris & Willis. In 1848 the sisters moved together to New York City.[1]
In 1851 Frances moved to St. Clair, Michigan north of Detroit to help care for her mother and younger sisters. She married Jackson Barritt in 1853, and she and her husband homesteaded near Omaha, Nebraska Territory. She left Barritt, however, returning to live with Metta in New York.[1] There she published several of the first dime novels with Beadle & Adams
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