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Mary Harriott Norris was born on March 16, 1848 in Boonton, New Jersey, United States. She was the daughter of Charles Bryan and Mary Lyon (Kerr) Norris.
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Mary Harriott Norris was born on March 16, 1848 in Boonton, New Jersey, United States. She was the daughter of Charles Bryan and Mary Lyon (Kerr) Norris.
Before the opening of Vassar College in 1865 her parents decided to send their daughter there. She was prepared in a private school, where she was the only girl studying Latin and, in spite of the disapproval of her mother's friends, made her entrance, taking with her the water-proof cloak and other modest equipment required in the pamphlet issued by the college. Her own account of the early days at Vassar, The Golden Age of Vassar (1915), reveals a life of frugality and hard work. Hannah Lyman, the first lady principal, said of her that she was "as greedy for learning as many people are for food". In 1870 she was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree.
In 1872 Norris delivered the annual address at the Vassar Commencement. In 1873 she published her first fiction, Fräulein Mina; or, Life in a North American German Family, which was so successful that she continued to write and published more than a dozen books of transient popularity. Among them were School Life of Ben and Bentie (1874) of the Ben and Bentie Series, Dorothy Delafield (1886), and The Gray House of the Quarries (1898). In the writing of such stories she showed some descriptive and story-telling ability, much sentiment, and an orthodox religious outlook.
She also contributed to periodicals and edited for use in schools George Eliot's Silas Marner (1890); Sir Walter Scott's Marmion (1891); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline (1896); Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott (1899); Quentin Durward (1900).
Another change in which she took pride was that during her year the young women almost entirely abandoned the custom "of appearing at breakfast in wrapper and dressing sacks, " she wrote, "a custom I found almost universal in the Hall on my arrival there". Her Tuesday morning chapel talks on religious themes and her Thursday evening talks on etiquette and personal hygiene were considered very helpful to the students.
During her later years she resided at Morristown, New Jersey.
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