Kate Douglas Wiggin, b. 1856, author and educator. She wrote Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and The Birds’ Christmas Carol. Eldest Daughter always thought Rebecca compared rather unfavorably to L.M. Mongomery’s Anne of Green Gables, but I remember enjoying both books and both heroines.
Read Rebecca online. Or better yet, read this story, A Cathedral Courtship, by KDW that I happened upon while googling about the web. Sample quotes from the story of a young American girl and her Aunt Celia who are touring the cathedrals of Europe:

Aunt Celia is one of those persons who are born to command, and when they are thrown in contact with those who are born to be commanded all goes as merry as a marriage bell; otherwise not. Oh, aren’t you thinking of someone just like Aunt Celia right now?

Aunt Celia says we shall have no worthy architecture until every building is made an exquisitely sincere representation of its deepest purpose,–a symbol, as it were, of its indwelling meaning. I should think it would be very difficult to design a lunatic asylum on that basis, but I didn’t dare say so, as Mr. Copley seemed to think it all right. Perhaps a maze? Or a building full of cubicles?

Wiggin also wrote an autobiography, My Garden of Memories, and an adult novel, The Village Watchtower. I may add both to The List.

Edith Mary Pargeter, b. 1913. She wrote several fine historical fiction novels, including The Heaven Tree Trilogy about a thirteenth century family of British stonecarvers. Of course, Pargeter’s more famous series of books takes place a century before the Heaven Tree books in the 1300’s, and she wrote them under a different name. Any guesses? If you’ve never read these and if you have a morbid taste for bones, you should go immediately to your nearest library and check one out. An excellent mystery.