William Adams
William Adams is the author of the Lakeside Literature Series, a series of children’s retellings of Aesop’s Fables, Greek myths and Mother Goose fairy tales. The first volume, Fables and Rhymes (1898), appears to have been used as a North American teaching text.
Adams may be the same author who wrote under the penname ‘Oliver Optic’. ‘Oliver Optic’ was a writer of boys’ adventure series, editor of children’s magazines and New England schoolteacher.
Sources:
Early American Textbooks, 1775–1900 by United States Department of Education, 1985, 13.
Bio prepared by Robin Diver, University of Birmingham, RSD253@student.bham.ac.uk
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