Dana, Olive E.

Olive E. Dana was born in Augusta, Maine on Dec. 24, 1859 and died in 1904. She resided all her life in Augusta, graduated from the high school there in 1877, and in the same year began to write for the press. Except when incapacitated by illness, she was a constant contributor, in both prose and verse, to many of the literary and religious publications of that time. She wrote articles on home topics and reviews, biographical sketches, and short stories. She was a frequent writer to the columns of the Journal of Education, the Cottage Hearth, Good Housekeeping, Portland Transcript, Illustrated Christian Weekly, and others.

From the description of Papers 1877-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 53981383