Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield

Mary Bradford Crowninshield (1844–1913) was an American novelist who also published under the name Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield. She was the daughter of author Sarah Hopkins Bradford, and several sources note that writing ran in the family. She married Arent Schuyler Crowninshield, a U.S. Navy officer, in 1870, and her life of travel seems to have shaped much of her fiction.

She wrote a varied body of work, including the Lighthouse Children books, Latitude 19 Degrees, Where the Trade-Wind Blows, San Isidro, Valencia's Garden, and The Archbishop and the Lady. Accounts of her career describe her novels as drawing on her own travel experiences, which helps explain the strong sense of journey and setting that appears again and again in her titles.

Her interests were broader than novels alone. Contemporary and later records credit her with songs and other writing, and note that her play Between Two Fires was performed in New York in 1905. She died on October 14, 1913.