Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Mrs. Fordyce Coburn (September 22, 1872 – June 4, 1958) was an American writer. She was a frequent contributor to The Ladies' Home Journal. Eleanor Hallowell Abbott was born in 1872, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, daughter of Clara (Davis) and clergyman Edward Abbott,who edited the journal *Literary World*; and the granddaughter of noted children's author Jacob Abbott. Through her literary and scholarly family, she personally knew luminaries such as Longfellow and Lowell in her youth. Abbotts poems were first accepted by *Harper’s Monthly* in 1909. She went on to publish seventy-five short stories and fourteen romantic novels. She also wrote an autobiography *Being Little in Cambridge When Everyone Else Was Big* about her childhood.