Sally Wood

For those of a similar name, see Sara Wood.

Sarah "Sally" Sayward Barrell Keating Wood (October 1, 1759–January 6, 1854) was an American novelist. She is considered the first American female writer of gothic fiction.^[1]

She was born in York, Maine, the first daughter of Sarah Sayward Barrell and the British army officer Nathaniel Barrell, but was heavily influenced by her weathly grandfather, Judge Jonathan Sayward. On October 23, 1778 she was married to Richard Keating, who died of a fever five years later.^[1] The couple had two daughters and a son. Later she married General Abiel Wood.^[2] He died in 1811, and Sally thereafter moved to Portland, Maine.^[3]

Sally Wood was an author of gothic novels who wrote under the pen name "A Lady of Massachusetts". After Maine became a state in 1820, she changed her pen name to "A Lady of Maine". To her readers, however, she was better known as Madame Wood.^[2]

Bibliography

• Julia and the Illuminated Baron, 1800.
• Dorval: or the Speculator, 1801.
• Amelia: or the Influence of Virtue, an Old Man's Story, 1802, Oracle Press, William Treadwell &Co.
• Ferdinand and Elmira: A Russian Story, 1804.
• Tales of the Night, 1827.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Dictionary of Literary Biography on Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood". BookRags. http://www.bookrags.com/biography/sally-sayward-barrell-keating-wood-dlb/. Retrieved 2008-05-16. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood". Maine Public Broadcastinbg Network. http://www.mpbn.net/homestom/timelines/bios/wood.html. Retrieved 2008-05-16. 
3. ^ Dunnack, Henry Ernest (1920). The Maine book. Augusta, Maine. 

External links

• Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood, ca. 1820, Maine Memory Network.
• Sally Wood was First Maine Novelist

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Name	Wood, Sally Sayward Barrell Keating
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Date of birth	1759
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Date of death	1854
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