author
Mary Roberts Conover
b. 1880
A practical early-20th-century writer, she is known for a concise guide to building poultry houses for home and farm use. Her surviving published record is slim, which gives her work a quiet, hands-on charm today.
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Making a Poultry House
by Mary Roberts Conover
About the author
Mary Roberts Conover was an American author born in 1880. The clearest surviving records found here identify her as the author of Making a Poultry House (1912), a short how-to book published by McBride, Nast & Company and later preserved by libraries and Project Gutenberg.
Her book fits neatly into the practical home-and-garden publishing of the period, focusing on useful construction advice rather than literary flourish. That makes her work especially interesting as a snapshot of everyday rural and domestic life in the early 1900s.
Beyond that publication detail, reliable biographical information appears to be scarce in the sources available here. No confirmed portrait or fuller life history was found, so it is best to remember her through the straightforward usefulness of the work she left behind.