Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) Smith (12 August 1806-15 November 1893), popular author and reformer, was born in North Yarmouth, Maine. She was self-educated and wished to pursue a teaching career but, on h...
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Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) Smith was one of the first American women to earn a national reputation as a fiction writer. In her mid forties she abandoned that career to work as an advocate for labor refo...
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Elizabeth Oakes Smith was among the most highly regarded and best-known literary women of mid-nineteenth-century America. In a chapter on Oakes Smith in his memoir, Fifty Years Among Authors, Books, a...
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Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) Smith