The Little Lady of the Horse

Evelyn Raymond was an author living in Baltimore Maryland who was an established writer when Edward Stratemeyer asked her to write the Dorothy Chester  series. Stratemeyer began to have problems with his publisher Chatterton-Peck and several lawsuits were the result.  Eventually he was able to purchase the rights and plates for many series volumes from them to take them to a new publisher Grosset & Dunlap.  As Chatterton-Peck tried to replace the numerous series that Stratemeyer withdrew from them they contacted three of his authors they could identify Howard R. Garis Lilian C. Garis and Evelyn Raymond.  They asked if they would continue the series they had been writing directly for them cutting Stratemeyer out of the loop.  The Garises contacted Stratemeyer and informed him of the offer.  Raymond did not.  She actually wrote more volumes in what was planned to be a “Dorothy Chester” series but was ultimately called the Dorothy series.