Marguerite Marsh, a Mankato assistant librarian in the early 1900s is the main character in the novel Emily of Deep Valley. Lovelace recounted more activities in turn-of-the-century “Deep Valley” in three additional books. Mankato librarian Maud Van Buren appeared as Miss Sparrow in several of the Betsy-Tacy books. In Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown, Lovelace described her delight at the opening of the Carnegie Library. Lovelace decided to write one book about her childhood experiences, calling herself Betsy, and her friends Tacy and Tib. When their daughter Merian was young, Maud Hart Lovelace began telling Merian stories about her own childhood in Mankato. Following a short period of study abroad, she married writer Delos Wheeler Lovelace in 1917. While in her teens, Maud Hart sent stories to magazines and sold her first story at age 18.Īfter graduating from Mankato High School in 1910, Maud Hart attended the University of Minnesota. When she was 10, her father had her poems printed in a booklet. Even in childhood she was a storyteller and writer. The author was born in Mankato on April 25, 1892, to Thomas and Stella (Palmer) Hart.
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