Born: 05/11/1864   Marquette , MI
Died: 08/13/1945
Parents: Jonas William and Emily Watson
Spouse: Earnest Fredrick Augustus Rankin
Children: Florence Imogene, Ernest Harvey, Eleanor Wood, Phyllis Spencer
Address(es):
Interred: Park Cemetery
Marquette , MI

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Dandelion Cottage - Publication years, 1977, 1984, 1997.	Fiction , Michigan	Children , Teen	Marquette, Mich., John M. Longyear Research Library	1977
	Stump Village	Fiction , Michigan	Children , Teen	New York : Henry Holt	1935
	Wolf Rock: a Sequel to The Cinder Pond	Fiction , Michigan	Children , Teen	New York : Henry Holt	1933
	Finders Keepers	Fiction , Michigan	Children , Teen	New York : Henry Holt	1930
	Gipsy Nan	Fiction , Michigan	Children , Teen	New York : Henry Holt	1926
	Girls of Highland Hall, further Adventures of the Dandelion Cottagers	Fiction , Michigan	Children , Teen	New York : Henry Holt	1921
	The Cinder Pond	Fiction , Michigan	Children , Teen	New York : Henry Holt	1915
	The Castaways of Pete's Patch	Fiction , Michigan	Children , Teen	New York : Henry Holt	1911
	The Adoption of Rose Marie - (Publication Years: 1908, 1936, 1943)	Fiction , Michigan	Children , Teen	New York : Henry Holt	1908
	The Girls of Gardenville	Fiction , Michigan	Children , Teen	New York : Henry Holt	1906
	Dandelion Cottage - (Publication Years: 1904, 1923, 1931, 1946, 1951)	Fiction , Michigan	Children , Teen	New York : Henry Holt	1904
	Other writings: - Skits and short stories published in Youth's Companion, Harper's Monthly, Life, St. Nicholas, Century, Bookman, Garden, Critic, Delineator, Leslie's, Lippincott's, Metropolitan, Everybody's, Munsey's.

What is the aim or goal of your writing: In the 2nd edition of Michigan Authors, her daughter, Phyllis, is credited with saying "She loved gardening. She had an artist's keen observation and delight in minute detail of form, color, and design in anything she encountered." "She started writing and illustrating her stories as soon as she could hold a pencil. By the time she was 15 she had stories published in various Sunday School papers and in Waverly's Magazine. At the age of sixteen, she responded to an advertisement in the Mining Journal seeking a bright boy to do reporting. Her response was that while she wasn't a boy, she was almost sure she was bright. She got the job and worked for the paper as their Society Editor. Also during this period before her marriage she gave drawing and painting lessons to private pupils."

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

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