Mary Jane Hawes

Mary Jane Holmes (April 5 1825-1907) was an American author who wrote many popular novels.

Mary Jane Hawes was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts in 1825. At age 13 she taught in a school. She married Daniel Holmes and they settled in Versailles, Kentucky. In 1854 she wrote her first novel, Tempest and Sunshine. The theme for most of her novels was domestic life. She died in 1907.

Books

*Tempest and Sunshine (New York, 1854),
*The English Orphans (1855)
*The Homestead on the Hillside, and other Tales (Auburn, 1855)
*Lena Rivers (1856)
*Meadow Brook (New York, 1857)
*Dora Deane, or the East India Uncle, and Maggie Miller, or Hagar's Secret (1858)
*Cousin Maude and Rosamond (1860)
*Marian Grey (1863)
*Hugh Worthington (1863)
*Darkness and Daylight (1864)
*The Cameron Pride, or Purified by Suffering (1867)
*The Christmas Font, a story for young folks (1868)
*Rose Mather, a Tale of the War (1868)
*Ethelyn's Mistake (1869)
*Millbank (1871)
*Edna Browning (1872)
*West Lawn, and the Rector of St. Mark's (1874)
*Mildred (1877)
*Daisy Thornton (1878)
*Forest House (1879)
*Chateau d'or (1880)
*Red Bird (1880)
*Madeline (1881)
*Queenie Hatherton (1883)
*Christmas Stories (1884)
*Bessie's Fortune (1885)
*Gretchen (1887)

Sources

*http://etext.virginia.edu/eaf/authors/mjh.htm
* [http://chnm.gmu.edu/dimenovels/authors/holmes.html American Women's Dime Novels, 1870-1920 ] at chnm.gmu.edu
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=76860589 Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ] at www.questia.com "Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook Book" by Denise D. Knight, Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 1997

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