Harriet Vaughan Cheney

She wrote a number of historical romances, among them A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Thirty-Six and The Rivals of Acadia, as well as religious works for children.

Harriet Vaughan Cheney was born in Brighton, Massachusetts, September 9, 1796.

[2] Her mother, Hannah Webster Foster, and her sister, Eliza Lanesford Cushing, were also both writers.

In 1830, she married Canadian merchant Edward Cheney, with whom she would have four children, and moved to Montreal, where she would spend the rest of her life.

After the deaths of their husbands in 1845 and 1846, the two sisters founded the Snow-Drop, a monthly girls' magazine "primarily concerned with social roles and domestic responsibilities appropriate for young women.