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Mary Langdon Bradbury Savage
1817–1872
Remembered for a single surviving novel, she brought the Miramichi Valley of New Brunswick to life with romance, local color, and a sharp sense of place. Her work offers a rare glimpse of regional fiction from the years just before Canadian Confederation.
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Adèle Dubois : a story of the lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick
by Mary Langdon Bradbury Savage
About the author
Mary Langdon Bradbury Savage was an American writer born on April 2, 1817, in York, Maine. A later publisher's note describes her as the eldest daughter of Jeremiah Bradbury and Mary Langdon Storer, and says she grew up in Alfred, Maine, where she received a strong education in a family known for its religious life and public standing.
She is chiefly known for Adèle Dubois: A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick, a novel first published in 1865. The book has drawn renewed attention for its vivid portrait of New Brunswick and the Miramichi region on the eve of Confederation, blending romance, regional detail, and the political and cultural tensions of its time.
Savage was married to the Rev. William T. Savage, and a funeral address published in 1872 identifies her as his wife in Franklin, New Hampshire. She died in 1872, leaving behind a small but distinctive place in nineteenth-century North American literary history.