Peebles, Mary Louise (Books published under Lynde Palmer) (10 December1833 - 1915)

Helps over hard places: stories for boys (1862) Helps over hard places: stories for girls (1862) The Little Captain (1861)

Born in Troy, New York, Mary Louise Parmelee graduated from the Lansingburg academy in 1850 and married Augustus A. Peebles in July 1862. She published her books under the pseudonym, Lynde Palmer. She is the author of The Little Captain (Boston, 1861), Helps over hard places (1862), The Good Fight (1865), The Honorable Club (1867), Drifting and Steering (Troy, 1867), One Day's Weaving (1868), Archie's Shadow (1869), John - Jack (1870) and Jeannette's Cistern (1882).

Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, editors. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol IV. New York: Appleton, 1888. 699.

Also in:

Allibone, Austin S. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1859. 1543,

Burke, W.J. and Will D. Howe. American Authors and Books 1640 to the Present Day. 3d Revised edition. Revised by Irving Weiss and Anne Weiss. New York: Crown, 1972. 492.