Bibliography: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, Chicago, IL:American Publishers' Association, 1902. p. 69 BAKER, MRS. HARRIETTE NEWELL, author, was born in 1815, in Andover, Mass. Besides two novels,—Cora and the Doctor, The Courtesies of Wedded Life,—her writings include nearly two hundred moral and religious tales, among which Tim the Scissors Grinder is the best known. She is best known by the pseudonyms of Madeline Leslie and Aunt Hally. She died in 1893.