About Elizabeth Foster Wesselhoeft
Lived 1840 – 1919 (aged 78). Elizabeth Foster Wesselhoeft was an American writer.
Elizabeth Foster Pope Wesselhoeft (21 October 1840 – 31 January 1919) was an American writer. She wrote eighteen children's books under the name Lily F. Wesselhoeft.
Elizabeth Foster Pope was born on 21 October 1840 in Dorchester, Boston. In 1863, she married Dr. Conrad Wesselhoeft, a prominent doctor who was the personal physician of Louisa May Alcott and the Alcott family. In her forties, she began writing children's books. Many of her works were about dogs, and others were fantasy stories with fairy tale elements, influenced by Alcott's fantasy works.
Elizabeth Foster Wesselhoeft died on 31 January 1919.
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American writer of children's books
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Elizabeth Foster Wesselhoeft was born on 21 October 1840 in Dorchester.
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Elizabeth Foster Wesselhoeft died on 31 January 1919 in Dighton.
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