Josephine Dodge Daskam, Mrs. Bacon (1876- 1961) was a prolific American author. She wrote many books among which are: Smith College Stories (1900), Sister's Vocation, and Other Girls' Stories (1900), Fables for the Fair (1901), Whom the Gods Destroyed (1902), The Madness of Philip.. (1902), Poems (1903), In the Valley of the Shadow (1903), Julia the Apostate (1903), Mrs. Dud's Sister (1903), A Philanthropist (1903), A Reversion to Type (1903), Middle Aged Love Stories (1903), The Courting of Lady Jane (1903), Her Fiancé (1904), Memoirs of a Baby (1904), The Imp and the Angel (1907), Domestic Adventurers (1907), Idyll of All Fool's Day (1908), In the Border Country (1909), The Biography of a Boy (1910), Inheritance (1912), Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon (1913), Luck O' Lady Joan (1913), To-day's Daughter (1914), Open Market (1915), Twilight of the Gods (1915) and Our Hill (1918).