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Sanborn, Helen Josephine

author, was born in 1857 in Maine. She is the author of A Winter in Central America, a volume of travels. SANBORN, KATHERINE ABBOTT, educator, author, poet, was born in 1839 in Hanover, N. H. She is a popular and versatile writer of ephemeral books, who was professor of English literature at Smith college prior to 1886. She is the author of Home Pictures of English Poets; Vanity and Insanity of Genius; Adopting an Abandoned Farm; Abandoning an Adopted Farm; A Truthful Woman in Southern California; My Literary Zoo; and a number of compilations. SANBORN, MRS. MARY [FARLEY], author, was born in 18-. She is a novelist of Boston; and the author of Sweet and Twenty; It came to Pass; and Paula Ferris.

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