Caroline Abbot Stanley

Caroline Abbot Stanley (August 16, 1849 – January 13, 1919) was an American author. Her best known book was the Civil War novel Order No. 11 (1904), which was a regional best seller.

Caroline Abbot Stanley
Stanley c. 1904
Born(1849-06-16)June 16, 1849
Callaway County, Missouri
DiedJanuary 13, 1919(1919-01-13) (aged 69)
Fulton, Missouri
OccupationWriter, teacher
Notable worksOrder No. 11 (1904)
SpouseElisha Stanley (1871–75)

Biography

Carolina Abbot was born in Callaway County, Missouri in 1849. She married Elisha Stanley in 1871 at Pleasant Hill, Missouri. Her husband died in 1875, and she then taught school in Kalamazoo, Michigan. After 1896 she became a full-time writer.[1]

In 1904, she published Order No. 11, a historical novel which takes its name from General Order No. 11 (1863), a Union Army directive issued during the American Civil War on August 25, 1863, forcing the evacuation of rural areas in four counties in western Missouri.[2][3][4] Order No. 11 appeared on regional-best seller lists in The Bookman in 1904.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Her follow-up novel A Modern Madonna (1906) was adapted to silent film in 1922's The Forgotten Law.[13] She also published short stories in The Century Magazine.

Stanley died in Fulton, Missouri in 1919, and was buried at Pleasant Hill cemetery.

List of works
  • Author's Birthdays (1888)
  • Order No. 11: A tale of the border (1904)
  • A Modern Madonna (1906)
  • The First Church's Christmas Barrel (1910)
  • The Master of "The Oaks" (1912)
  • Their Christmas Golden Wedding (1913)
  • The Keeper of the Vineyard (1913)
  • Dr. Llewellyn and His Friends (1914)

References
  1. Personal, Missouri Historical Review, p. 423 (July 1919)
  2. Book News Biographies, Book News, p. 977 (Vol. 22, No. 261, May 1904)
  3. (June 1904). Ewing, Thomas, Jr. Order No. 11 (review), Current Literature, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 615–18
  4. Santoro, Nicholas J. Malvern Hill, Run Up To Gettsburg, p. 372 & n. 1225 (2014)
  5. (May 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, The Bookman (for books sold between March and April 1904; No. 1 for Providence, Rhode Island)
  6. (June 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, The Bookman, pp. 431–32 (for books sold between April and May 1904: No. 1 for Kansas City; No. 4 for Louisville, Kentucky; No. 3 for Providence, Rhode Island)
  7. (July 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, The Bookman, p. 534 (for books sold between May and June 1904: No. 1. in Kansas City)
  8. (August 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, The Bookman, p. 622 (for books sold between June and July 1904: No. 4 in Kansas City)
  9. (Sept 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, pp. 86–87 (for books sold between July and August 1904; No. 2 in Kansas City; No. 4 in Omaha, Nebraska)
  10. (Oct 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, pp. 174–76 (for books sold between August and September 1904; No. 1 in Kansas City; No. 6 in Omaha, Nebraska; No. 3 in Salt Lake City, Utah)
  11. (Nov 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, p. 270 (for books sold between September 1 and October 1, 1904; No. 4 in Kansas City)
  12. (Dec 1904). Sales of Books During the Month, p. 399 (for books sold between October 1 and November 1, 1904; No. 3 in Omaha, Nebraska)
  13. (31 Dec 1922). At the Theaters This Week, Great Falls Tribune, p. 8, col. 1.
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