Partington

Mrs., the heroine of a book by Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber, entitled Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington, and published in 1854. Mr. Shillaber, who was a native of New Hampshire, was at one time editor of the Boston Post, at another, editor-in-chief of the Carpet Bag, and still later editor of the Saturday Evening Gazette. He also published Mrs. Partington's Knitting Work and Partingtonian Patchwork. While these writings display no special literary merit, they are full of homely good sense and a certain kind of humor which made them popular.