Augusta Huiell Seaman
Augusta Huiell Seaman was an American author of children's literature.
Augusta Huiell Seaman was born Augusta Curtiss Huiell in New York City, on April 3, 1879, the daughter of the bookkeeper John Valentine Huiell and his third wife, Anna Curtiss.
She graduated from Normal College in New York City in 1900 and went on to teach elementary school. She married Robert Seaman in 1906. Following her marriage, she devoted her time to writing. Her career writing mysteries for children began with the publication of The Boarded-Up House which ran serially in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1914.
Her only child, Helen Roberta was born in 1915. Her husband Robert died in 1927. In 1928 she married her second husband, Francis Parkman Freeman, foreman of the Phipps estate in Island Beach, New Jersey. While living in Island Beach, Augusta held various offices in the local government, including Borough clerk, Tax Collector, and Borough Registrar.
Over her career Seaman wrote and published over forty books for young people. She died at age seventy-one and is interred at Rosedale Cemetery in Orange, New Jersey.
Books
A few of Seaman's books have been reprinted, but many remain out of print. The rarest of her books are much sought after by collectors. Several of her novels were translated into Norwegian, Danish, and French.Jacqueline of the Carrier Pigeons When a Cobbler Ruled a King Little Mamselle of the Wilderness The Boarded-Up House The Sapphire Signet The Girl Next Door Three Sides of Paradise Green Melissa-Across-the-Fence The Slipper Point Mystery Americans All; Stories to Tell Boys and Girls of Ten to Twelve The Crimson Patch The Dragon's Secret The Mystery at Number Six Tranquility House Sally Simms Adventures It The Edge of Raven Pool Bluebonnet Bend The Secret of Tate's Beach '- '