Theodora R. Jenness

Theodora R. Jenness (née, Robinson; 1847 – March 30, 1935) was an American children's author, editor, and clubwoman who spent many years doing missionary work in South Dakota.

[1] From 1894, Jennness was engaged in mission work for girls of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, in South Dakota.

[3] Along with several other young writers, including, Mary Sheldon Barnes, Eudora Stone Bumstead, Edwin Roth Champlin ("Clarence Fairfield"), Helen Gray Cone, Eleanor C. Donnelly, F. ("Fern") Hamilton, C. A. Stephens, Robert M. Walsh, and William S. Walsh, Janness got her start as a writer at Our Young Folks.

[1] She wrote "Fire Stories", "John Tryman", and made numerous other contributions to leading eastern magazines.

[8] She was the author of, Two Young Homesteaders, 1881; Piokee and Her People, 1891; Above the Range, 1896,[2] and The Miracle Man, 1917.