author
Mary Stewart Cutting
1851–1924
Known for warm, observant stories about home life and relationships, this American writer built a steady readership with fiction rooted in everyday experience. Her work belongs to the tradition of domestic realism that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
5 Audiobooks
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
by William Dean Howells, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, John Kendrick Bangs, Alice Brown, Mary Stewart Cutting, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Henry James, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Henry Van Dyke, Mary Heaton Vorse, Edith Wyatt
More Stories of Married Life
by Mary Stewart Cutting
Little Stories of Married Life
by Mary Stewart Cutting
The Blossoming Rod
by Mary Stewart Cutting
The Wayfarers
by Mary Stewart Cutting
About the author
Born Mary Stewart Doubleday in New York City in 1851, she later became Mary Stewart Cutting after marrying Charles Weed Cutting in 1875. She wrote novels and short stories, and reliable reference sources describe her as an American author associated with domestic realism.
Her fiction often focused on the small dramas of courtship, marriage, family, and social life rather than sensational plots. That close attention to ordinary experience helped make her work appealing to readers of magazines and books in her era.
She died in 1924. Though not as widely known today as some of her contemporaries, she remains a representative voice of popular American women's fiction from the turn of the century.