Harriet Louisa Childe-Pemberton was an American author. She was a member of the Christian Knowledge Society and modernized fairy tales according to Christian ideals. Her works include: The Fairy Tales of Every Day (1882), Olive Smith; or, An Ugly Duckling (1883), Prince: A Story of the American War and Other Narrative Poems (1883), No Beauty (1884), Birdie: A Tale of Child-Life (1888), A Backward Child (1890), Under the Trees (1890), Fire and War (1891), Dead Letters, and Other Narrative and Dramatic Pieces (1896), Twenty Minutes: Drawing-Room Duologues, etc. (c1900), In a Tuscan Villa, and Other Poems (? ), Love Knows and Waits, and Other Poems (? ), Text and Stage Business (1906), Nenuphar: The Four-Fold Flower of Life (1911) and Her Own Enemy: A Play (? ).