Switch to EncyclopediaClose XPERKINS, LUCY FITCH (MRS. DWIGHT HEALD): 1865-1937.
Lucy Fitch, prolific author and illustrator of juvenile fiction, was born in
Maples, Ind., on July 12,
1865, the daughter of Appleton Howe and
Elizabeth Bennett Fitch. She graduated from the Museum of
Fine Arts School in Boston in 1886, and from 1887 to 1891 she taught in the Pratt Institute
in Brooklyn. On Aug. 18, 1891, she married
Dwight Heald Perkins.
Mrs. Perkins' "Twins" series of books
sold–and still sell–in astonishing numbers, furnishing
pleasant and mildly instructive reading matter for at least two generations of
American children. Probably no series of juveniles–except possibly the
"Brownie" books by another Indiana author–has run
through so many individual titles.
The chronology of the bibliography reveals two occasions (1919 and 1926) when the author made an effort to
abandon twins–only to be forced by her publisher and her juvenile
admirers to resume writing about them.
She died on Mar. 18, 1937.
Information from Who Was Who in America and Burke and
Howe–American Authors and Books,
1640-1940.
- The Goose Girl: Children's Rhymes.
Chicago, 1906.
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Close X - A Book of Joys: Story of a New England Summer.
Chicago, 1907.
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Close X - The Dutch Twins. Boston, 1911.
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Close X - The Japanese Twins. Boston,
1912.
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Close X - The Irish Twins. Boston, 1913.
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Close X - The Eskimo Twins. Boston, 1914.
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Close X - The Mexican Twins. Boston, 1915.
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Close X - The Cave Twins. Boston, 1916.
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Close X - The Belgian Twins. Boston, 1917.
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1917.
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Close X - The French Twins. Boston, 1918.
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Close X - The Spartan Twins. Boston, 1918.
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Close X - The Scotch Twins. Boston, 1919.
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Close X - Cornelia: the Story of a Benevolent Despot.
Boston, 1919.
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Close X - The Italian Twins. Boston, 1920.
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Close X - The Puritan Twins. Boston, 1921.
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Close X - The Swiss Twins. Boston, 1922.
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Close X - The Filipino Twins. Boston,
1923.
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Close X - The Colonial Twins of Virginia.
Boston, 1924.
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Close X - The American Twins of 1812.
Boston, 1925.
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Close X - The American Twins of the Revolution.
Boston, 1926.
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Close X - Mr. Chick, His Travels and Adventures.
Boston, 1926.
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Close X - The Pioneer Twins. Boston, 1927.
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Close X - The Farm Twins. Boston, 1928.
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Close X - Kit and Kat: More Adventures of the Dutch Twins.
Boston, 1929.
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Close X - The Indian Twins. Boston, 1930.
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Close X - The Pickaninny Twins. Boston,
1931.
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Close X - The Norwegian Twins. Boston,
1933.
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Close X - The Spanish Twins. Boston, 1934.
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Close X - The Chinese Twins. Boston, 1935.
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Close X - The Dutch Twins and Little Brother.
Boston, 1938.
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