Jeannette H. Walworth

Jeannette H. Walworth
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Jeannette Ritchie Hadermann February 22, 1835 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	February 4, 1918(1918-02-04) (aged 82) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Pen name	Mother Goose, Ann Atom
Occupation	Novelist, journalist
Language	English
Nationality	American
Spouse	Douglas Walworth ​ ​ (m. 1873; died 1915)​

Jeannette H. Walworth (née, Hadermann; pen names, Mother Goose and Ann Atom; February 22, 1835 – February 4, 1918) was an American novelist and journalist.^[1] Born in Philadelphia, in 1837, she removed to Natchez, Mississippi, while a child, with her father, Charles Julius Hadermann, a German baron, who became the president of Jefferson College. On his death, the family removed to Louisiana. When she was sixteen years old, Walworth became a governess. In 1873, having married Maj. Douglas Walworth, of Natchez, she accompanied him to his plantation in southern Arkansas, and then to Memphis, Tennessee, before finally removing to New York City. In addition to contributions to the periodical press, the Continent, The Commercial Appeal, and other magazines, she published several novels.^[2] Walworth died in 1918.