Maria Louise Pool

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maria Louise Pool (20 August 1841 – 18 May 1898) was an American writer, born in Rockland, Mass. to Elias Pool and Lydia Lane. She removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1870, where she first wrote for a Philadelphia paper and afterward for the Evening Post and the Tribune of New York. Later she resided in Wrentham, Mass. It was not until 1887 that she became widely known through her A Vacation in a Buggy. Her Literary work, which consists of sketches, chiefly of New England life, most of which appeared in the periodicals, was issued in book form as follows:

• Selected works:
• Tenting at Stony Beach (1888)
• Dally (1891)
• Roweny in Boston (1892)
• Mrs. Keats Bradford (1892)
• Katherine North (1893)
• The Two Salomes (1893)
• Out of Step (1894)
• Against Human Nature (1895)
• Mrs. Gerald (1896)
• In the First Person (1898)
• Boss and Other Dogs (1898)
• A Golden Sorrow (1898)
• The Maloon Farm (1899)

[edit] References

• "Pool, Maria Louise." American Authors 1600 – 1900. H. W. Wilson Company, NY 1938.
• Hale, Dr. Amand M. A Brief Sketch of the Life Of Maria Louise Pool. 1899 at http://www.burrows.com/poolbio.html J.R. Burrows & Co. Accessed 10 Dec 2007 .

• This American novelist article is a stub. You can help by expanding it.

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.