Keziah Coffin by Joseph C. Cotton | 1909 Antique Novel | Cape Cod Novel | Bixley Shop

Keziah Coffin was written by Joseph C. Lincoln in 1909. Lincoln was an American writer in the early part of the 20th century who often wrote stories of "old Cape Cod," on his own and with his son Freeman Lincoln. ABOUT THE AUTHOR (Courtesy of Wikipedia)Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870 – 1944) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod. Lincoln was born in 1870 in Brewster, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, and his mother moved the family to Chelsea, Massachusetts, a manufacturing city outside Boston, after the death of his father. Lincoln's literary career celebrating "old Cape Cod" can partly be seen as an attempt to return to an Eden from which he had been driven by family tragedy. His literary portrayal of Cape Cod can also be understood as a pre-modern haven occupied by individuals of old Yankee stock which was offered to readers as an antidote to an America that was undergoing rapid modernization, urbanization, immigration, and industrial