Mary J. Holmes (1825–1907)
Auteur van The English Orphans, or, A Home in the New World
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Fotografie: Mary Jane Hawes Holmes (1825 or 1828-1907), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Werken van Mary J. Holmes
The Cameron Pride, or, Purified by Suffering 14 exemplaren
Aikenside and the Old Red House Among the Mountains 4 exemplaren
Rena's Experiment 3 exemplaren
Cousin Hugh 3 exemplaren
Queenie Hetherton 3 exemplaren
The Merivale banks 3 exemplaren
The abandoned farm, and Connie's mistake 2 exemplaren
Paul Ralston 2 exemplaren
Nina, or, Darkness and daylight : a novel 2 exemplaren
Daisy Thornton and Jessie Graham 2 exemplaren
Leighton homestead 2 exemplaren
Rosamund (Knickerbocker classics) 2 exemplaren
Connie's Mistake 1 exemplaar
Darkness and light 1 exemplaar
Red-bird. A Brown cottage story 1 exemplaar
Nina, or, Darkness and light 1 exemplaar
Rosamond, and, The rector of St. Mark's 1 exemplaar
Mrs. Hallam's companion, and other stories 1 exemplaar
The abandoned farm 1 exemplaar
Lucy Harding: A Romance of Russia 1 exemplaar
Aikenside ; Dora Deane 1 exemplaar
What will the world say? 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Hawes, Mary Jane (née)
- Geboortedatum
- 1825-04-05
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1907-10-06
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Brockport, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA (birth)
Versailles, Kentucky, USA
Brockport, New York, USA - Beroepen
- novelist
short story writer - Korte biografie
- 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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- 71
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- Populariteit
- #18,892
- Waardering
- 3.5
- Besprekingen
- 9
- ISBNs
- 167