Harriet Lummis Smith
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Auburndale, Massachusetts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Harriet Lummis Smith | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 29, 1866 Auburndale, Massachusetts |
| Died | May 9, 1947 (aged 80) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Writer (novelist) |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 20th century |
| Genre | Romance, Pollyanna |
| Spouse |
William M. Smith (m. 1905) |
Harriet Lummis Smith (November 29, 1866 – May 9, 1947) was an American novelist.
Harriet Lummis was born in Auburndale, Massachusetts, on November 29, 1866. Her father, Henry Lummis, was a clergyman. Her mother was Jennie Brewster.[1] Smith had a half-brother, Charles Fletcher Lummis, by a previous marriage of her father. Her parents moved to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where her father accepted a teaching post at Lawrence College. She attended the University of Wisconsin and graduated in 1889.
Career
Lummis Smith began her career as a high school teacher. She published her first short story, "Matilda's Good Impression," in Youth's Companion in 1906 and began writing full time after a publisher said she was "wasting her time teaching."[2] Her stories were published in national magazines and widely distributed through newspaper syndicates.[3] Her first novel, Peggy Raymond's Success; or the Girls of Friendly Terrace (1912) became a popular series and led to her being tapped to continue the Pollyanna series by Eleanor Porter after Porter's death in 1920.
She was a member of the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore and was made president in 1915.[2] She married William M. Smith in 1905. She lived in Chicago, Baltimore and eventually Philadelphia, where she died in 1947.[4]
