Mary Stewart Daggett

Born in Ohio in 1856, Mary Stewart Daggett was an American author whose work appeared in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Records available through library and public-domain book sources confirm her as the author of novels including The Higher Court and Mariposilla, both of which remain accessible today through Project Gutenberg and library archives.

Published book listings and modern reprints describe her as a writer who settled in Pasadena, California, with her family, and who often used Southern California as a setting in her fiction. Her stories are remembered for combining character-driven drama with questions of conscience, faith, and social expectation.

Daggett died in 1922. Although detailed biographical information is limited in easily verifiable sources, her surviving novels still offer a clear sense of her voice: thoughtful, readable, and closely interested in the pressures shaping everyday lives.