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Mary Rogers Bangs
Best known for writing about Cape Cod, this early 20th-century American author brought the region's landscape, history, and everyday life vividly to the page. Her books range from regional nonfiction to historical biography and fiction.
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Old Cape Cod : the land, the men, the sea
by Mary Rogers Bangs
About the author
Mary Rogers Bangs was an American writer born in Boston in 1868. She is best remembered for Old Cape Cod: The Land, the Men, the Sea (1920), a book that helped preserve the feeling of Cape Cod through its attention to local history, people, and the natural world.
Her known books also include Jeanne D'Arc, the Maid of France (1910), a biography of Joan of Arc, and High Bradford (1912), a novel set on Cape Cod. Together, these works show a writer interested both in place and in character, with a clear affection for New England and its stories.
Available records indicate that she lived from 1868 to 1956. Even though little biographical detail is widely documented today, her writing still offers readers a strong sense of regional life and the enduring pull of the Cape.