Born: 12/16/1847   Luray
Died: 12/26/1902
Parents: Marcus and Phoebe Hartwell
Spouse: James Steele Catherwood
Children: one
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Last known address:
Chicago , IL
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Website : http://landandlit.iweb.bsu.edu/Literature/Authors/catherwoodmh.htm

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Lower Illinois Valley : local sketches of long ago of Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwood / compiled and edited by Eileen Smith Cunningham. - Published posthumously.	Fiction	Adult	Kane, Ill. : Umphress Printing Company	1975
	Lazarre	Historical Fiction	Adult	Indianapolis, The Bowen-Merrill co	1901
	Mackinac and Lake Stories - (Publication Years: 1899, 1969)	Michigan , Short Stories	Adult	New York : Harper & Bros.	1899
	Heroes of the Middle West: The French	History	Adult	Boston, Ginn and Company	1898
	The Days of Jeanne d' Arc	Biography , Historical Fiction	Adult	New York, The Century Co.	1897
	The Chase of St. Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World	Historical Fiction , Short Stories	Adult	Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin	1894
	Old Kaskaskia	Historical Fiction	Adult	Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company	1893
	The White Islander - Setting:Mackinac Island (Mich.)	Historical Fiction , Michigan	Adult	New York, Century Co.	1893
	The Lady of Fort St. John	Historical Fiction	Adult	Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company	1891
	The Story of Tonty	Historical Fiction	Adult	Chicago, A. C. McClurg and company	1890
	The Bells of Ste. Anne	Fiction			1889
	The Queen of the Swamp and Other Plain Americans - These stories were originally published in the Atlantic monthly, Harper's bazaar, and other magazines. Republished, 1969.	Fiction	Adult	Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company	1889 -1899
	The Romance of Dollard - Appeared as a serial in Century	Historical Fiction , Romance	Adult	New York, The Century co.	1889
	The Secrets of Roseladies	Fiction	Adult		1888
	Old Caravan Days	Historical Fiction	Adult	Boston, D. Lothrop and Company	1884
	Rocky Fork	Fiction	Adult	Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard co	1882
	Cracque-o'-Doom	Historical Fiction , Romance	Adult	New York : American News Co.	1881

What is the aim or goal of your writing: After separating from her husband, Mary spent her summers in writing, at Mackinac, her favorite resort. Contemporary Authors says, "Mary Hartwell Catherwood is best known for her wealth of short stories, which tell both of "plain folk" in her native Midwestern America and of romantic figures set in exotic historical timeframes. Catherwood is also known for her proto-feminist characterizations of women: her female heroines are always bold, upright and true. Her parents, Marcus and Phoebe Thompson Hartwell, died when Catherwood was eleven, leaving her and her two siblings to be raised by their grandparents in Hebron, Ohio. The family was not wealthy, but Catherwood was an ambitious girl willing to test her mettle: she began teaching school at age fourteen, putting away money for her own college education. She was particularly successful in her long romance, Lazarre (1901), which was enormously popular with readers. As Robb suggested, critics have tended to focus on her "plain fiction," approving of the realistic stories with which Catherwood began her career. He wrote, "The Chase of Saint-Castin, The Queen of the Swamp, and Mackinac all have been reprinted since 1969, suggesting that Catherwood is of some importance in the history of the development of the American short story. In fact, Robert Price sees her stories and novels of the small midwestern town as among the first in a long line leading to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919)." However, Catherwood must also be remembered as one of the first American authors to write in the popular form of historical romance, for she not only helped to develop that form, but also developed some of her best ideas in it. She was still deeply engaged with the form at the time of her death on December 26, 1902."

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