Mary Hartwell Catherwood
1847-1902
Writer of romantic historical fiction
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Mary Hartwell Catherwood was born in Ohio in 1847. After spending most of her life in the small Midwestern towns where her husband's business took her and her daughter, at the end of her life she settled in Chicago, where she died in 1902. Catherwood was a central figure in Middle Western authorship during the 1880s and 1890s, writing historical romances, both short stories and novels. Many of her regional, local-color tales reflect life in the corn-belt towns of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, as well as the French traditions along the American-Canadian border...
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Mostly outgoing correspondence, manuscript and published writings, diaries, notebooks, notes for stories, clippings, photographs and some miscellaneous material relating to Mary Hartwell Catherwood's life and career. With the exception of a few incoming letters, the correspondence in the collection is mainly letters Catherwood wrote to her aunt, Harriet H. DeVault, to a friend, Eleanor Ruthrauff, and (mostly in 1891) to her husband, James Steele Catherwood...
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