Lucy Foster Madison (April 8, 1865 – March 16, 1932) was an American novelist and teacher.
[3] Her father, mother, and brother all died[1] while she was a teen,[2] leaving her to care for her two younger sisters.
[1] In 1893, the offer of a prize by a New York newspaper interested her enough to enter a short story and she won second place.
[1] Her series of "Peggy Owens" stories and other tales for girls were popular early in the twentieth century.
Her husband began to suffer ill health, so they moved to a farm near Hudson Falls, New York in 1924.