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Mary Langdon Bradbury Savage
1817–1872
A 19th-century American novelist with ties to Maine and New Hampshire, she is remembered for fiction set in the Miramichi region of New Brunswick. Her surviving work blends local color, romance, and a strong sense of place.
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Adèle Dubois : a story of the lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick
by Mary Langdon Bradbury Savage
About the author
Born on April 2, 1817, in York, Maine, she was the eldest daughter of Jeremiah Bradbury and Mary Langdon Storer. Later known by her married name, Mrs. William T. Savage, she spent much of her early life in Alfred, Maine, in a family noted for its education, religion, and public standing.
She is best known today as the author of Adèle Dubois: A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick, a novel first published in 1865. Library records also connect her with Miramichi from the same year, showing her interest in the people, landscape, and cultural tensions of New Brunswick on the eve of Confederation.
Mary Langdon Bradbury Savage died on January 1, 1872, in Franklin, New Hampshire. Reliable sources found in this search confirm her books and basic life dates, but I did not find a clearly verified portrait image of her, which is not unusual for a relatively obscure 19th-century author.