Mary K. (Mary Katherine) Maule

Born in 1861, Mary K. Maule is listed by Project Gutenberg as Mary Katherine Maule. She is associated with Nebraska literary history, and her novel A Prairie-Schooner Princess has remained her most visible surviving work in the public domain.

Her fiction drew on the American frontier world, especially pioneer travel and settlement in Nebraska. Another book linked to her is The Bryne Girls, How They Worked and Won, showing a wider interest in young people, work, and everyday courage.

Reliable biographical details about her personal life are limited in the sources I could confirm, so this portrait is necessarily brief. Even so, the record that does survive suggests a writer interested in making the hardships and promise of western life vivid for later generations.