Maud Wilder Goodwin (1856-1935) was the author of Open Sesame: Poetry and Prose for School-Days (1890), Dolly Madison (1896), White Aprons: A Romance of Bacon"s Rebellion (1896), Flint: His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes (1897), The Colonial Cavalier; or, Southern Life Before the Revolution (1897), Historic New York (ed. ) (1897), The Head of a Hundred in the Colony of Virginia (1900), Sir Christopher: A Romance of a Maryland Manor in 1644 (1901), Four Roads to Paradise (1904), Claims and Counterclaims (1905), Veronica Playfair (1909) and Dutch and English on the Hudson (1919).