Martha Stone Hubbell


Martha Stone Hubbell was an American author.

Biography

She was born in Oxford, Connecticut, in 1814; died in North Stonington, Connecticut, in 1856. She was the daughter of Dr. Noah Stone, and married Reverend Stephen Hubbell in 1832. She wrote children's stories for the American and Massachusetts Sunday school Union, and The Shady Side, or Life in a Country Parsonage, by a Pastor's Wife. This was intended as a counterpart to The Sunny Side by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and 40.000 copies were sold in a year.