author
Mary Devereux
d. 1914
An American novelist remembered for lively historical fiction, she brought dramatic episodes from the past to a wide audience at the turn of the twentieth century. Her best-known work, Lafitte of Louisiana (1902), retells the story of the legendary privateer Jean Lafitte with a strong sense of adventure.
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From Kingdom to Colony
by Mary Devereux
About the author
Born in 1852, Mary Devereux was an American novelist who also appears in records as Mary Devereux Watson. Reliable catalog and reference sources identify her as the author of historical fiction published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Her best-known book is Lafitte of Louisiana (1902), a substantial historical novel about Jean Lafitte, the famous Gulf Coast privateer. She also wrote From Kingdom to Colony (1899), showing a clear interest in turning episodes from history into readable, character-driven fiction.
Devereux died in 1914. Although not widely remembered today, her work reflects the era's appetite for historical storytelling that mixed research, romance, and adventure.