The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Circular Staircase
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1908

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was an American mystery writer often compared to Agatha Christie.

The Gates Ajar - by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The Gates Ajar
by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co.
1869

A popular novel about life after death, giving comfort to those who had lost husbands, sons or brothers in the American Civil War.

Margaret Deland - From Women Authors In Their Homes

Women Authors of Our Day In Their Homes
Francis Whiting Halsey, Editor
New York: James Pott & Co., 1903

Chapter on Margaret Deland

Other authors discussed:

• Marion Harland Pompton
• Bertha Runkle
• Agnes Repplier
• Lucas Malet
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Kate Douglas Wiggin
• Mary Johnston
• John Oliver Hobbes
• Amelia E. Barr
• Louise Chandler Moulton
• Mrs. Humphry Ward
• Mrs. Sherwood
• Blanche Willis Howard
• Harriet Prescott Spofford
• A.D.T. Whitney
• Margaret E. Sangster
• Ruth McEnery Stuart
• Mary E. Wilkins
• Julia Ward Howe
• Jeannette L. Gilder
• Edith Wharton
• Gertrude Atherton
• Mary Mapes Dodge
• Rebecca Harding Davis
• Edith M. Thomas
• Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

I am amazed at how many of the names on this list I have never heard of!

A Southern Girl in '61 [1861]

Publisher's Weekly, Volume 68, page 567
Review of A Southern Girl in '61 by Louise Wigfall Wright

Four Civil War Memoirs by Women

Confederate Veteran, Volume 28, 1920, page 420
Four Remarkable Biographies

Reviews of the books of four southern women of the 1860s who have written biographies and memoirs:

• Memoirs of Jefferson Davis by Varina Davis
• Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by Mary Anna Jackson
• Reminiscences of Peace and War by Sara Agnes Pryor
• Recollections Grave and Gay by Constance Cary Harrison

A Search for an Ancestor - by Sara Pryor

Sara Pryor, also known as Mrs. Roger Pryor, is best known for her Civil War memoir Reminiscences of Peace and War. She also wrote a short story called A Search for an Ancestor, which is delightful.

A Search for an Ancestor
by Sara Pryor
The Century Magazine, Volume 49, (Nov 1894 - Apr 1895) pp 855-864

Sarah Orne Jewett

From Literary Boston Today