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Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
d. 1935
An American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction often centered on women in the American West, she wrote with a feel for inner conflict as well as landscape. Publishing as Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, she left behind popular early-20th-century novels including The Black Pearl, The Silver Butterfly, and The Beauty.
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The Black Pearl
by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
The Silver Butterfly
by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
The Beauty
by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
About the author
Born Nancy Mann Waddel in Ohio around 1867, she became known in print as Mrs. Wilson Woodrow and continued using that name as her byline. She built a career as an American fiction writer in the early 1900s, and several of her works later remained widely accessible through public-domain editions.
Her novels and stories are often associated with women-centered plots and Western settings. Titles linked with her include The Black Pearl, The Silver Butterfly, The Beauty, and The Devil's Daughter, works that helped give her a modest but lasting place among popular writers of her era.
She died in New York City on September 7, 1935. Though not as widely remembered as some of her contemporaries, her work still survives through library, archive, and film-history records, offering a glimpse of popular American storytelling in the early twentieth century.