Charles Dickens

Martha Finley

L. Frank Baum

Kenneth Grahame

Max Brand

Frances Hodgson Burnett

J. M. Barrie

Anna Sewell

Louisa May Alcott

George MacDonald

Beatrix Potter

Eleanor H. Porter

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Jacob A. Riis

Abbie Farwell Brown

Juliana Horatia Ewing

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Thomas Nelson Page

F. Marion Crawford

Amy Ella Blanchard

Hesba Stretton

Florence L. Barclay

Sophie May

Lucas Malet

Alice Hale Burnett

Ernest Ingersoll

Annie F. Johnston

Amanda M. Douglas

Mary Louisa Molesworth

Frances Browne

James Lane Allen

June Isle

A. S. Boyd

Edward A. Rand

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