Harriet T Comstock

At the Crossroads Harriet T Comstock

Harriet Theresa Comstock (1860-1943) was an American novelist and author of children's books. BiographyComstock was born to Alpheus Smith and Jean A. Downey in Nichols, New York. She received an academic education in Plainfield, New Jersey. In 1885, she married Philip Comstock of Brooklyn, New York. She started writing in 1895, mostly short stories for magazines and books principally for children. WORKS Molly, the Drummer Boy (1900) A Boy of a Thousand Years Ago (1902) The Queen's Hostage (1906) Janet of the Dunes (1908) Joyce of the North Woods (1911) A Son of the Hills (1913) The Place Beyond the Winds (1914) The Vindication (1917) Mam'selle Jo: A Novel of the St. Lawrence Country (1918) Unbroken Lines (1919) The Shield of Silence (1921) At the Crossroads (1922) Walter De Maris(1877 - 1947) Brandywine artist, mostly in the humorous vain, for Life and Judge or Saturday Evening Post, but also deadly serious for WWI posters. Also calendar and cover art for such dry journals (but not dry artwork!) as American Bankers Association Journal.