The New International Encyclopædia/Whitney, Adeline Dutton (Train)

WHIT'NEY, (1824&mdash;). An American author, born in Boston, Mass. She was married at the age of nineteen, and lived at Milton, Mass. The list of her books is long. It includes: Footsteps on the Seas (1857); Mother Goose for Grown Folks (1860), which became popular; Boys at Chequasset (1862); Faith Gartney's Girlhood (1863); The Gayworthys (1865); A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life (1866); Patience Strong's Outing (1868); Hitherto (1869), with which the period of her best work ends; We Girls (1870); Real Folks (1871); Pansies (1872); The Other Side (1873); Sights and Insights (1876); Odd and Even (1880): Bonnyborough (1885); Homespun Yarns (1886); Daffodils (1887); Bird-Talk (1887); Ascutney Street (1888); A Golden Gossip (1890); Friendly Letters to Girl Friends (1897).