Old Lady Number 31 (dodo Press)

Mary Louise Foster, who wrote under the pseudonym Louise Forsslund (1873/6-1910), was an American author. The daughter of a Swedish-born storyteller, Andrew W. Foster, friend of Samuel Longhorne Clemens, she grew up hearing her fathers stories. She wrote a number of works in the early twentieth-century including The Story of Sarah (1901), The Ship of Dreams (1902), A Basket and a Fortune (1906), A Dixie Girls Letters (1906), Winter Love (1906), The Knight of Gentle Folly (1906), A Winter Butterfly (1907) and Old Lady Number 31 (1909). After her death, her novel Old Lady Number 31 was made into a play by Rachel Crothers which ran on Broadway from 1916-1917. It was made into a film titled The Captain is a Lady (1940).