Introduction

Biography

Augusta was the daugh­ter of Ze­be­dee Lar­ned and Sa­rah Ann Ethe­ridge.

She was edu­cat­ed at Wa­ter­town and Pots­dam se­mi­na­ries and the Sping­ler Ins­tit­ute for Young La­dies, at West Side Un­ion Square in New York Ci­ty.

She set­tled in New York Ci­ty as a news­pa­per cor­res­pond­ent and con­trib­ut­or of sketch­es, sto­ries, and po­ems to pe­ri­od­ic­als.

In 1870 she ed­it­ed The Re­vo­lu­tion, a wo­man’s rights news­pa­per. And, for 20 years, she was a cor­res­pon­dent and edi­to­ri­al writ­er with The Christ­ian Re­gis­ter, Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

Works

She wrote six vol­umes for child­ren, ti­tled Home Sto­ries (New York, 1872–78), orig­in­al­ly pub­lished in ma­ga­zines and news­pa­pers. She al­so wrote on Greek and Norse myth­olo­gy.

Her oth­er works in­clude:

• Talks with Girls, 1873
• Old Tales Re­told from Gre­cian My­tho­lo­gy, 1875
• The Norse Grand­mo­ther, Tales from the Ed­das, 1880
• Village Pho­to­graphs
• In the Woods and Fields, 1895
• The Bor­der­land of Coun­try Life, 1919

In 1880, Lar­ned was sin­gle, liv­ing in Man­hat­tan, New York.