Mary J. Holmes (1825–1907)
Autore di The English Orphans, or, A Home in the New World
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Mary Jane Hawes Holmes (1825 or 1828-1907), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Opere di Mary J. Holmes
Rena's Experiment 3 copie
Cousin Hugh 3 copie
Queenie Hetherton 3 copie
The Merivale banks 3 copie
Paul Ralston 2 copie
Daisy Thornton and Jessie Graham 2 copie
Leighton homestead 2 copie
Connie's Mistake 1 copia
Darkness and light 1 copia
Red-bird. A Brown cottage story 1 copia
Nina, or, Darkness and light 1 copia
The abandoned farm 1 copia
Aikenside ; Dora Deane 1 copia
What will the world say? 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Hawes, Mary Jane (née)
- Data di nascita
- 1825-04-05
- Data di morte
- 1907-10-06
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Brockport, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA (birth)
Versailles, Kentucky, USA
Brockport, New York, USA - Attività lavorative
- novelist
short story writer - Breve biografia
- Mary Jane Holmes, née Hawes, was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts to a family with modest circumstances. Her father died when she was 12 years old, and she went to work as a school teacher at 13. She began writing and storytelling at an early age, and published her first story in a local newspaper at 15. In 1849, she married Daniel Holmes and moved with him to Versailles, Kentucky, where they both taught for a few years. The small towns and people she met there served as the inspiration for her novels set in the antebellum South.
In 1852, the couple settled in Brockport, near Rochester, New York. She gave up teaching to devote herself to her writing. In 1854, she published her first novel, Tempest and Sunshine, which became her most popular book. She traveled extensively in Europe and the Far East, collecting art and continuing to write and publish about one book a year until her death. Altogether, she wrote 39 novels, plus short stories and novellas. Many of her works appeared first in serial form or were first published in periodicals such as the New York Weekly, Lippincott’s, and the Atlantic Monthly. She sold a total of two million books in her lifetime, making her popularity in her day second only to that of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 71
- Utenti
- 1,352
- Popolarità
- #19,015
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 9
- ISBN
- 167