Henrietta Christian WrightHenrietta Christian Wright (February 18, 1852 – December 13, 1899) was an American children's author who resided in the Old Bridge section of East Brunswick, New Jersey. She is buried in the Chestnut Hill Cemetery. She wrote children's books on lierature, history and science. One of her children's books, Children's Stories in American Literature: 1660-1860, covered the lives and works of such great authors as Edgar Allan Poe, William Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. First published in 1861, this book was a part of the everyday schooling of young pre-teens.[citation needed] In 1883, the New York publisher White and Stokes published Little Folk in Green written by Wright and illustrated at the age of 16 by Miss Lydia Emmet (1866–1952), who went on to become a noted portrait artist. Read More Read Less