Josephine Augusta Trott (December 24, 1874 - March 2, 1950) was an American author, composer, and music educator who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Colin Shepherd.
[3] Although she never married, she adopted a daughter, Riccarda McQuie, who went on to play violin in the Denver Symphony for 29 years.
Trott's book, On Demande une Maman, published under her pseudonym Colin Shepherd, was actually a fictionalized version of McQuie's story.
In 1932, Trott published an English translation of a French book on William the Conqueror by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus.
[6] She left the royalties from her publications to the Josephine Trott Memorial Scholarship Fund of the National Federation of Music Clubs.