author
Frances Aymar Mathews
d. 1925
A sharp-eyed observer of Gilded Age society, she wrote novels and plays that mixed wit, romance, and social satire. Her work moved easily between magazines, the stage, and popular fiction at the turn of the twentieth century.
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My Lady Peggy Goes to Town
by Frances Aymar Mathews
About the author
Born in New York City in 1865, Frances Aymar Mathews became known as an American novelist, playwright, and editor. She began publishing in the 1880s, contributing articles and stories to magazines before building a wider career in fiction and theater.
Her writing often turned a lively, skeptical eye on manners, class, and social ambition. Among her better-known books are My Lady Peggy Goes to Town and New Yorkers and Other People, and her most successful play was Pretty Peggy (1902), which starred Grace George.
Mathews died on September 10, 1925. Though she is not as widely read now as some of her contemporaries, her work offers an engaging glimpse of American literary and theatrical life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.