Burnham, Clara (1854 - 1927)

Genre: General Fiction

Born in Newton, Massachusetts, on June 20, 1854, and spending much of her life in Chicago, Burnham summered on Bailey Island (near Brunswick) and wrote stories about the region. Her father was the popular American song-writer George Frederick Root. Her works deal largely with the teachings of Christian Science.

She died in 1927.

Selected Bibliography

  • No Gentlemen (1881)
  • We, Von Arldens (1881, under a pseudonym, Edith Douglas)
  • A Sane Lunatic (1882)
  • Dearly Bought (1884)
  • Young Maids and Old (1889)
  • Mistress of Beech Knoll, a novel (1890)
  • Miss Bagg's Secretary: A West Point Romance (1892)
  • Phyllis, the Farmer's Daughter: an Operatic Cantata (1892), with her father George F. Root
  • Dr. Latimer; A Story of Casco Bay (1893)
  • Uncle Benjamin's Christmas Gift (1894)
  • Sweet Clover: A Romance of the White City (1894), about Chicago and the 1893 World's Fair;
  • The Wise Woman (1895)
  • Miss Archer Archer (1897)
  • A Great Love (1898)
  • A West Point Wooing, and Other Stories (1899; reprinted 1969)
  • Next Door (1900)
  • The Right Princess (1902)
  • Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life (1903), on which a 1923 movie of the smae name was based
  • Jewel's Story Book (1904)
  • The Opened Shutters (1906), about a summer romance on Casco Bay; two films, 1914 & 1921 were based on the book
  • The Leaven of Love (1908)
  • Quest Flower (1908)
  • Clever Betsy, a novel (1910)
  • Inner Flame, a novel (1912)
  • Right Track (1914)
  • Great Love (1915)
  • Instead of the Thorn (1916)
  • Hearts' Haven (1918), a 1921 film was based
  • Wenonah's Stories for Children (1918)
  • (1919)
  • Key note, a novel (1921)
  • Queen of Farrandale, a novel (1923)
  • Lavarons, a novel (1925)
  • Tobey's First Case, a novel (1926)

Selected resources