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Jane Ludlow Drake Abbott (1879-1962) was an American author who began her career writing for adolescent girls and went on to write adult romance. Born in Buffalo New York to a family involved in the shipbuilding industry of the Great Lakes region she was educated at Cornell University and married Buffalo attorney Frank A. Abbott. Most of her twenty juvenile titles were published under the name Jane D. Abbott although a few were released under the name Jane Abbott. Her adult titles were all released under the name Jane Abbott.