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Kate Lee Ferguson
1841–1928
A Southern writer with a gift for storytelling and song, she was known in her lifetime as a novelist, poet, and composer. Her best-known books include Cliquot and Little Mose, works that helped preserve the flavor of 19th-century Southern life.
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Cliquot: A Racing Story of Ideal Beauty
by Kate Lee Ferguson
About the author
Born Catherine Sarah Lee in Lexington, Kentucky, on November 3, 1841, she later became widely known by the pen name Kate Lee Ferguson. She built a varied literary life as an American novelist, poet, and composer, and is most often remembered for Cliquot (1889) and Little Mose (1891).
Her work drew on Southern settings and traditions, and she was also connected to Mississippi for many years. In addition to fiction, she wrote poetry and music, showing the kind of range that was common among many 19th-century literary figures but still feels impressive today.
She died on May 30, 1928. Though she is not as widely read now as some of her contemporaries, her writing remains of interest to readers who enjoy regional literature, historical fiction, and voices from the post-Civil War South.