Mary Hartwell Catherwood

Born 1847 in Ohio, Mary Hartwell Catherwood was a successful writer of historical romances, publishing both novels and short stories in periodicals such as Lippincott’s Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, and the Atlantic Monthly. Due to Catherwood’s husband’s business, she traveled and lived throughout the Midwest and developed her signature style of incorporating Midwestern culture, dialect, and local color into her texts. Although most of her novels and stories are set in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, some are also based along the American border with French Canada and on colonial Mackinac Island. Catherwood died in 1902 in Chicago, Illinois.

External links

• Mary Hartwell Catherwood Papers at Newberry Library