Adeline TraftonAdeline Trafton Knox (about 1842-1920?) was an American novelist and writer who published the most of her work in the 1870s. Trafton was born in Saccarappa, Maine circa 1842, the daughter of pastor (and one-term member of the United States Congress) ark Trafton (sources differ; it was likely closer to 1842, while several suggest February 8, 1845). She attended Wesleyan Female College in Wilmington, Delaware for a while. Under a pen name, she began publishing brief pieces in the Springfield Republican newspaper in 1868. An American Girl Abroad was published in 1872 as a book based on a series of her foreign letters published in that daily. Katherine Earle (1874) and His Inheritance (1878) were both serialized in Scribner's Monthly before being published as books. She married lawyer Samuel Knox, Jr. (d. 1897) in 1889. Dorothy's Experience was initially serialized in the Christian Union in 1890. She was against women's suffrage. According to a 1980 anthology on American women writers, Trafton is rarely recognized today and had little influence on other writers of her time. Nonetheless, "her plots appear contrived and sentimental by modern standards." She "wrote lively, interesting stories" and "was well-liked by young readers for at least a few decades." Read More Read Less