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Mary Edwards Bryan was born on May 17, 1842 near Tallahassee, Florida and was the daughter of Major John D. and Louisa Critchfield (Houghton) Edwards.
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Excerpt from Poems and Stories in Verse The poems in this little volume were written in the scant leisure hours, scattered through busy years of pen-work in more prosaic lines. Only one of them was ever offered to a publisher; those that have been in print appeared in the periodicals I was editing at the time when they were written. Writing them was to me a recreation and a pleasure. They were spontan eous, springing from the feeling, thought or fancy of the hour. Some of them are sombre; but life has more shadow than sunshine, and it is in shadowed ways that we gather the deepest lessons of life, as more fragrant dew is found in the heart of flowers that bloom in the shade. Some of the poems have been widely copied and some of the stories in verse seem to have been prized as recitations. Such as they are, I offer these collected bits of verse to my friends, who have so often called for them with words of kindly praise, and to the pub lic, who may not be so generous in their estimate, say ing once more, that they are but as wild flowers, sown by the winds of fancy and feeling, between the furrows of more prosaic work in the field of daily duty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Mary Edwards Bryan was born on May 17, 1842 near Tallahassee, Florida and was the daughter of Major John D. and Louisa Critchfield (Houghton) Edwards.
Her family later moved to Thomasville, Georgia, and Mary received her education at the Fletcher Institute at Thomasville.
Her first experience in the literary field was as literary editor of the Literary Crusader at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1862. For a time she was a regular correspondent of Southern Field and Fireside. In 1866 she became editor of the Natchitoches (Louisiana), Tri-Weekly.
She was associate editor of the Sunny South from 1874 to 1884. To these papers she contributed sketches, poems, stories, and, not infrequently, political articles.
In 1880 she published her novel called Manch, which is a shortening of the Indian proper name "Comanche. " The next year she published Wild Work, a novel dealing with the reign of the carpet-baggers and the Ku Klux Klan in the South. Eight other novels and three volumes of verse followed in due time.
She went to New York in 1885 to superintend the publication of her novels and was engaged as assistant editor of the New York Fashion Bazaar and the Fireside Companion.
In 1887 she edited Munroe's Star Recitations for Parlor, School, and Exhibition. G. Munroe was for some time her principal publisher. She was also one of the early writers for Street & Smith.
In 1895 she returned to Georgia to work on the Sunny South which subsequently merged into Uncle Remus' Magazine. In the latter she conducted a popular page entitled "Open House" in which she made editorial comments on current issues and in turn published individual letters sent to the paper. She was also an editor of the Half Hour Magazine. At the time of her death she was writing for the Golden Age, a magazine published in Atlanta.
She returned to Georgia around 1895, returned to the Sunny South, and continued to edit and write until her death in 1913. She wrote at least 20 novels in all. Bryan was buried in Indian Creek cemetery in Clarkston next to her husband.
Mary Bryan contributed to Georgia Literary and Temperance Crusader (c. 1858) and became its literary editor (c. 1859); contributed full-length novel to Southern Field and Fireside; served as co-editor of Semi-Weekly Natchitoches Times (1866–67), associate editor of Sunny South, and assistant editor of Fireside Companion and Fashion Bazaar (both published by George Munro); published many novels, including Manch (1880) and Wild Work (1881); served as editor of Half Hour (1897–1900) and as writer for Uncle Remus's Magazine and Golden Age.
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Mary Bryan wrote all her books at night. "His Legal Wife", her favorite novel, is said to have been written in a week and a half. Her stories were very sensational, invariably reaching many dramatic climaxes. In spite of being produced according to a general formula, they covered a wide variety of settings, including the Western frontier, the South, and New York City.
Invariably they brought out the moral lessons which would appeal to the undiscriminating readers of popular novels. Several of her books ran through a number of editions.
While yet in school, at the age of fifteen she married I. E. Bryan, a wealthy Louisianian.
