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Carolyn Wells
(1862–1942)
 

American author and poet who wrote a total of more than 170 books; firstly concentrated on poetry, humor and children's books; later, devoted herself to the mystery genre; best remembered for her mystery books, especially The Clue (1909), and her light verse which include several classic limericks

Carolyn Wells

Works

(Partial list)

Adult fiction

  • Alan Ford
    • The Bride of a Moment (1916)
    • Faulkner's Folly (1917)
  • Anthologies (as editor)
    • A Nonsense Anthology (1910)
    • A Parody Anthology (1904)
    • Such Nonsense, An Anthology (1918)
    • The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year (1931, 1932)
    • The Book of Humorous Verse Project Gutenberg

Children's fiction

  • The Dorrance family
    • The Dorrance Domain (1905)
    • Dorrance Doings (1906)
  • Other novels
    • Folly in Fairyland (1901)
    • In the Reign of Queen Dick (1904)
    • Dick and Dolly (1909)
    • Dick and Dolly's Adventures (1910)
    • The Story of Betty (1911)
  • Children of Our Town From the Collections at the Library of Congress

Nonfiction

    • On Finishing Collector (1926)
    • The Technique of the Mystery Story (1913)
    • An Outline of Humor (1923) (external scan)
    • Book of American Limericks (1925)

Works from magazines

  • "The Adventure of the Clothes-line" (ss) Century Magazine, 1915
  • "Diversions of the Re-Echo Club" (ss) Harper's Magazine, 1909
  • "An Easy Errand" (ss) Harper's Magazine, 1910
  • "Hilarity Hall" (nvt) St. Nicholas Magazine, 1902 Hilarity Hall: (in book form—expanded and revised—as Eight Girls and a Dog, 1902)
  • "Improved Proverbs," Smart Set Vol 3, 1901
  • "A Point of Testimony" (ss) Adventure Oct 1911
  • "The Re-Echo Club" (ss) Harper's Magazine, 1917
  • "The Summer Girl and the Sand" (ss) Century Magazine, 1912
  • "A Vindication of the Limerick" (prose & verse) Harper's Magazine, 1906
  • "Belinda's Dimple" (1904 Dec, Delineator) (ss)
  • "A Twentieth-Century Love" (1904 April, Smart Set) (ss)
  • "The Inconsistent Bridegroom" (1907 Jan, Smart Set) (pm)
  • "The Specimen Numbered Four" (1907 Aug, Ainslee's) (ss)
  • "A Lovery Man" (1916 March, Smith's) (ss)
  • "In Her Happiest Hour" (1919 Dec 23, Detective Story) (novella)

Verse

  • "The Adventures of Little Katy" in Harper's Magazine, Jun 1904
  • "Comic Opera Songs" in Metropolitan Magazine, 1906
  • "At the Convention" in Harper's Magazine, Jan 1911
  • "Babes and Antiques" in Harper's Magazine, Oct 1920
  • "A Ballade of Protest" in Century Magazine, Jul 1913
  • "English as She is Spelled" in Munsey's Magazine, Nov
  • "Law of Compensation" in Metropolitan Magazine, 1906
  • "On Meeting an Old Friend. (After Wordsworth)" in Harper's Magazine, Dec 1908
  • "Progress" in Century Magazine, Feb 1906
  • "The Rime of the Lady May" in Harper's Magazine, 1919
  • "Thirty Charades" (charades) St. Nicholas vol. 28, 1901
  • "To Omar" in Century Magazine, Feb 1900
  • "The Turnings of a Book-Worm" in Century Magazine, Dec 1904
  • "Fine Feathers", illustrated by Charles M. Relyea, in St. Nicholas, Vol. 40, No. 4 (February 1913)

Other

Works about Wells

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.

The author died in 1942, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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