Lucy Foster Madison was an American novelist and teacher.
Background
Born Lucy Foster in Kirksville, Missouri, the daughter of George W. Foster and Almira Parker, she graduated from high school in Louisiana, Missouri. Her father, mother, and brother all died while she was a teen, leaving her to care for her two younger sisters.
Education
Left orphan in early teens. Graduate Louisiana (Missouri) High School, followed by special instruction in music, art, Latin, French.
Career
Contributor of short stories and serials to various publications. Institute and Chautauqua assembly worker in Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska Author: A Maid of the First Century, 1899. A Maid at King Alfred’s Court, 1900.
A Colonial Maid, 1902.
A Daughter of the Union, 1903. In Doublet and Hose, 1904.
A Maid of Salem Towne, 1906. Peggy Owen, 1908; Peggy Owen, Patriot, 1910.
Peggy Owen at Yorktown, 1911.
Peggy Owen and Liberty, 1912. Bee and Butterfly: A Tale of Two Cousins, 1913. Time’s Follower, 1914.
A Life of Joan of Arc, for young people, 1918.
A Life of Lafayette, for young people, 1920. A Life of Washington.
Captain Kitty—A Little Maid of Knickerbocker New New York The Story of Abraham Lincoln—an American Epic, 1927.