Mary Spring Walker

Mary Spring Walker was an American author born on May 20, 1830, and she died on July 19, 1904. A Victorian fiction reference source identifies her birthplace as South Berwick, Maine, and her death place as Hartford, Connecticut.

Her surviving bibliography points to a writer deeply associated with temperance fiction. Listings for her work include The Family Doctor; or, Mrs. Barry and Her Bourbon, Down in a Saloon; or, The Minister's Protégé, The Rev. Dr. Willoughby and His Wine, and Both Sides of the Street. Reference material also describes her novels as temperance stories set in Connecticut.

Walker is now a relatively obscure figure, but online library records show that several of her books remain accessible through major digital collections, and Project Gutenberg lists Miss Elliot's Girls: Stories of Beasts, Birds, and Butterflies under her name. Some catalogs also connect her with the name Mary Spring Corning, suggesting that readers may encounter her under more than one form of her name.