nn Stephens was a well-known novelist in her day, as were many of the writers who contributed stories. Perhaps the, although her work for dime novels was always published under pseudonyms. Other contributors came from all walks of life: Edward Ellis was a school principal; Ann Emerson Porter was a poet and the second cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edward Willett was a lawyer; George Aiken was a playwright who was the first to dramatize Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ; Dr. William Mason Turner was a Philadelphia physician; John H. Whitson was an ordained minister.
