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May Wentworth
A 19th-century American writer remembered for fairy tales and fiction, she also appears to have worked under the name Mary Richardson Newman Dolliver. Her books blend romance, adventure, and a strong sense of place, especially in stories tied to California and the American West.
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Fairy Tales from Gold Lands: Second Series
by May Wentworth
Fairy Tales from Gold Lands
by May Wentworth
About the author
Very little is firmly documented about this author, but available library and reference records suggest that May Wentworth was a pen name used by Mary Richardson Newman Dolliver. She is associated with 19th-century American fiction and children's literature, and several modern catalogs connect the two names.
She is best known today for works such as Fairy Tales from Gold Lands and The Golden Dawn and Other Stories. Reference sources describe her as a U.S. author whose writing focused largely on fairy tales, while book and catalog records also show that she edited Poetry of the Pacific, an anthology of verse from the Pacific states.
Because surviving biographical detail is scarce, her life remains somewhat shadowy compared with her books. Still, her work offers a glimpse of popular 1800s storytelling shaped by folklore, imagination, and the literary culture of the American West.