Bio from the dust jacket of her novel "White Dawn - A Legend of Ticonderoga" - 1914
Miss Theodora Peck is the daughter of General Theodore S. Peck, a Past Commander of the Vermont Commandery, Military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and for many years Adjutant-General of Vermont. She was educated at Burlington Hight School and University of Vermont. She is the only woman honorary Member of the Medal of Honor Legion of the United States (holding medal number one of the Second Class), a member of Green Mountain Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and an honorary Member of the Vermont Society Daughters of 1812.
In 1905, she published her first novel, 'Hester of the Grants', a story of Old Bennington, being then nineteen years of age. This was followed in 1908 by 'the Sward of Dundee, a Tale of Bonnnie Prince Charles and in 1914, 'White Dawn, a Legend of Saratoga ... A Romance of the French and Indian War'
An observer notes that she was named Mary Agnes Peck and legally changed her name to Theodora in 1908.
Bio from the dust jacket of her novel "White Dawn - A Legend of Ticonderoga" - 1914
Miss Theodora Peck is the daughter of General Theodore S. Peck, a Past Commander of the Vermont Commandery, Military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and for many years Adjutant-General of Vermont. She was educated at Burlington Hight School and University of Vermont. She is the only woman honorary Member of the Medal of Honor Legion of the United States (holding medal number one of the Second Class), a member of Green Mountain Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and an honorary Member of the Vermont Society Daughters of 1812.
In 1905, she published her first novel, 'Hester of the Grants', a story of Old Bennington, being then nineteen years of age. This was followed in 1908 by 'the Sward of Dundee, a Tale of Bonnnie Prince Charles and in 1914, 'White Dawn, a Legend of Saratoga ... A Romance of the French and Indian War'
An observer notes that she was named Mary Agnes Peck and legally changed her name to Theodora in 1908.
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