Ann Sophia Stephens
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Ann Sophia Stephens (1810-1896), an American novelist and magazine editor, was born in 1810.
She was the author of dime novels and is known as the progenitor of the genre.
Early life
Ann Sophia Stephens was born in Derby, Connecticut, on March 30, 1810; she was the niece of William Winterbotham's son. Col. David Humphreys' manager was the boss of a woolen mill owned by him. Her mother died early and was taken up by her mother's sister, who later became her stepmother. She was educated at a dame school in South Britain, Connecticut, and began writing at an early age. Edward Stephens, a printer from Plymouth, Massachusetts, married her in 1831 and they migrated to Portland, Maine. Clara Bloodgood was the niece of their son Edward Stephens, a well-known New York lawyer.
Career
She and her husband co-founded, published, and edited the Portland Magazine, a monthly literary periodical in Portland, where some of her early work appeared. The magazine was published in 1837. Ann took the position of editor to The Ladies Companion in New York, where she could expand her literary career. Jonathan Slick, a comedic pseudonym, was also around the time she adopted the humular pseudonym. Over the next few years, she published over twenty-five serial books as well as poems for several well-known periodicals, including Godey's Lady's Book and Graham's Magazine. Fashion and Famine, her first book, was released in 1854. Mrs Stephens' Illustrated New Monthly began in 1856, and her husband's Illustrated New Monthly was released by her husband. A few years ago, the magazine was merged with Peterson's Magazine.
The term "dime novel" was first used by Stephens' Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter, in Beadle & Adams' Beadle's Dime Novels series, dated June 9, 1860. Stephens' earlier serial appeared in the Ladies' Companion magazine in February, March, and April 1839. Malaeska was listed as the most influential book of 1860 by the Grolier Club later in the decade. High Life in New York (1843), Alice Copley: A Tale of Queen Mary's Time (1846) and A Noble Woman (1871) are among her other writings.