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Mary A. (Mary Abigail) Roe
Best remembered for writing a warm, firsthand memoir of novelist E. P. Roe, this 19th-century American writer also published under the name C. M. Cornwall. Her work offers a small but vivid window into literary and family life of her era.
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E. P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life
by Mary A. (Mary Abigail) Roe
About the author
Mary Abigail Roe was an American author born in 1839 and known most clearly today for E. P. Roe: Reminiscences of His Life (1899), a biography of her brother, the novelist Edward Payson Roe. Library and catalog records also associate her with the pseudonym C. M. Cornwall.
Because surviving biographical information is limited, the safest picture is a modest one: she appears to have been a writer whose lasting reputation comes from preserving family and literary history rather than from a large standalone fame of her own. That gives her work a personal quality that can feel especially appealing to readers interested in 19th-century American authors and the circles around them.
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