Harriet Waters Preston

Harriet Waters Preston (1836–1911) was an American writer and translator. She began writing articles, such as essays and reviews. She is recognized as a scholar for her translations of Provençal literature. Preston has written novels about life in New England. was born in 1836 in Danvers, Massachusetts. Her father was an inventor and bank trustee. She lived in Great Britain and France for many years. (She had intended to return to her home in Keene, but had the care of nurses at the Muirhead's home, where she died.)

Career At a young age, she began to write for magazines. She wrote for other magazines and published Private Life of the Romans (1893) and Love in the Nineteenth Century. The Guardians (1888),

Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell dedicated their 1891 book of sketches Play in Provence "To Harriet Waters Preston who was the first to turn our attention, as well as that of all other English-speaking people, to the country of Mireio, we offer our impressions of Provence". The reference is to Mirèio, an epic poem by Frédéric Mistral.