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Mary Anne Atwood (née South) (1817 – 1910) was an English writer on hermeticism and spiritual alchemy. Atwood was born in Dieppe , France but grew up in Gosport , Hampshire . Her father, Thomas South, was a researcher into the history of spirituality, and she assisted and collaborated with her father from her youth.
Mary Watson (born 31 May 1975) [1] is a South African author.In 2006 she won the Caine Prize for African Writing and in 2014 was named on the Africa39 list of writers from sub-Saharan Africa aged under 40 with potential and talent to define trends in African literature.
Born in southwestern Ontario, she spent her childhood in Blackwell, Ontario, and is a distant relative of L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables. Her father worked as a research chemist. With a psychology degree in hand from McGill University, Lawson took a trip to Britain and ended up accepting a job as an industrial psychologist ...
Eileen Mary Challans (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983), known by her pen name Mary Renault (/ ˈ r ɛ n oʊ l t / [2]), [1] was a British writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece. [3] Born in Forest Gate in 1905, she attended St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1924 until 1928.
Mary Amelia Ingalls (January 10, 1865 – October 20, 1928) was born near the town of Pepin, Wisconsin. She was the first child of Caroline and Charles Ingalls and older sister of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder , known for her Little House book series.
Julia Peterkin (October 31, 1880 – August 10, 1961) was an American author from South Carolina. In 1929 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary. She wrote several novels about the plantation South, especially the Gullah people of the Lowcountry. She was one of the few white authors who wrote about the African-American ...
Mary Alice Monroe is a best-selling author known for fiction that explore the compelling parallels between nature and human nature. Many of her novels deal with environmental issues . For example, The Beach House and Swimming Lessons refer to the plight of injured sea turtles .
Mary Chesnut was born on March 31, 1823, on her maternal grandparents' plantation, called Mount Pleasant, near Stateburg, South Carolina, in the High Hills of Santee.Her parents were Stephen Decatur Miller (1788–1838), who had served as a U.S. Representative, and Mary Boykin (1804–85).