Frances Sargent Osgood

Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850), born Frances Sargent Locke in Boston, was an American poet and writer for children who published widely in the annuals and magazines of her day.

She married the painter Samuel Stillman Osgood, and is remembered for her literary friendship with Edgar Allan Poe. Stedman included several of her lyrics in An American Anthology (1900).