Louise Andrews Kent (May 25, 1886 – August 6, 1969) was an American author. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1886, she graduated from Simmons College School of Library Science in 1909, where she was president of her senior class and editor of the college paper. She wrote a newspaper column, Theresa’s Tea Table, in the Boston Traveller under the pen name of Theresa Tempest and later (as Mrs. Appleyard) authored a series of cookbooks and regularly contributed a quarterly feature on food for Vermont Life Magazine. Under her own name, Kent authored a couple of novels, some non-fiction, and a number of children's books, including the eight "He Went With" books
The Vermont Historical Society, of which Kent was a trustee during the 1950s, maintains a collection of research notes, manuscript and typescript drafts, and galley proofs of her work.
Novels
- (1934) The Terrace
- (1939) Paul Revere Square
Children's fiction
- (1931) Douglas of Porcupine
- (1932) Two Children of Tyre
- (1933) The Red Rajah (sequel to Douglas of Porcupine)
- (1933) Jo Ann, Tomboy (stories originally published in Girl Scout Magazine)
- (1935) He went with Marco Polo: A Story of Venice and Cathay
- (1938) He went with Vasco da Gama
- (1940) He went with Christopher Columbus
- (1943) He went with Magellan
- (1958) He Went with John Paul Jones
- (1959) He went with Champlain
- (1961) He went with Drake
- (1967) He went with Hannibal
Cookbooks
- (1941) Mrs. Appleyard's Year
- (1942) "Mrs. Appleyard's Kitchen"
- (1953) ...with Kitchen Privileges
- (1957) The Summer Kitchen
- (1962) The Winter Kitchen
- (1965) Vermont Year Round Cookbook
- (1974) Mrs. Appleyard’s Kitchen Omnibus
Other non-fiction
- (1948) Village Greens of New England
- (1955) The Brookline Trunk
- (1968) Mrs. Appleyard and I
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