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M. G. (Mary Greenway) McClelland
1853–1895
A Virginia novelist who wrote with quiet intensity and a strong sense of place, she built a late-19th-century career from her home at Elm Cottage. Writing as M. G. McClelland, she became known for novels, stories, and poems shaped by Southern settings and character-driven drama.
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Princess
by M. G. (Mary Greenway) McClelland
About the author
Mary Greenway McClelland was an American novelist born on August 5, 1853, in Norwood, Virginia. She wrote under the name M. G. McClelland and spent much of her life at Elm Cottage in Buckingham County, where her family moved when she was young.
She published fiction, stories, and poems, and was a recognizable literary name in the late 1800s. Sources about her note that her work often drew on Southern life and that she published multiple novels during her career.
McClelland died on August 2, 1895, just before her forty-second birthday. Though she is less widely read now, her novels remain part of the record of 19th-century American popular fiction.