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Mary was born on July 18, 1833 at Ellsworth, Me. She was the daughter of Richard and Mehitabel (Jellison) Tincker.
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Excerpt from Signor Monaldini's Niece In these fine days, when the young princess lived proudly in her house, - a house not inherited from mouldering generations, each leaving a stain on the walls and a ghost On the stair, but freshly made for her, as the world for Eve, - the neighbors had employ ment for their eyes in peeping through the blinds. There were stately and select breakfast-parties, chiefly ecclesiastical, gayer dinners, and gayest evening recep tions, when the long windows stood a row Of brilliant lights, and, through curtains generously left half-drawn, such jewels and toilets, such arms and shoulders could be seen, as gave the on-lookers something to talk about. Here they learned, if never before, how freely these fine people bowed, courtesied, and chatted to each other, who were SO impassive and indifferent if by Chance they met any Of these far-away, fascinated Spectators. The young mistress grew Old, and in time was car ried out, making One last pompous show; and her son reigned in her place. There was less to see in his time. Perhaps he was a spendthrift, people said so; at all events, from his advent to his exit, the fortunes of the house paled like a fading star. The next generation rented a part Of the palace, and from that day its fate was sealed. Its prestige departed in the moment when the palace had more than one family within its walls. And so it went down, like the Prodigal, down to the very swine. The neighborhood deteriorated, shut in like some little cove Of a slowly-flowing river, where all the slime and dead leaves and sticks gather themselves out of the way Of the current, and decay at their leisure on the surface Of the water. For every disreputable person who came in, a respectable person went out of the street, till finally it was given up to the lowest tenants. The poor palazzetto grew to look very forlorn. Its stucco fell off, dirt choked its sculptures, its windows were broken or patched, and dingy rags flaunted from every Opening and on the roof and balconies. It looked worse in that state than a meaner house would have done, than its neighbors did just as the Prodigal Son must have looked forlorner at the trough than the swine. 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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Excerpt from By the Tiber: By the Author of Signor Monaldini's Niece Gigi raved himself to death. He was very nearly a beast, this vine-dresser, dull and easy-humored when all went well, and lashing himself into a blind fury when he was crossed; and his fury, having nothing else to spend itself upon, turned its poison backward, and gave him a paralytic stroke. He might have recovered had he chosen to keep quiet; but with returning health came returning passion, and a sec ond stroke followed the first one. Only when death was at hand did the beast in him lie down, and some thing of higher calm look out of his eyes. And then, at last, Felicita, the ghost of herself, came stealing in one evening, and sank sobbing on her knees by his bedside, and dropped a purse of gold into his chilling hand. He asked no questions. 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 was born on July 18, 1833 at Ellsworth, Me. She was the daughter of Richard and Mehitabel (Jellison) Tincker.
She was educated in the public schools of Ellsworth and at Bluehill Academy, Bluehill, Me.
She began teaching at the age of thirteen in the public schools of Ellsworth; later she taught in a Roman Catholic parochial school. At fifteen she began writing and contributed sketches, anonymously, to local newspapers and to magazines.
In her twenties, when her writings began to reach a larger and more appreciative audience, she felt a strong urge to leave what she thought to be a cramping environment. This feeling, with the personal renaissance caused by her religious ideas, served thoroughly to transplant her in thought from New England to Rome.
She became a volunteer nurse in 1863 and worked in military hospitals in Washington for a short time. Returning to Boston, she began again her anonymous contributions to periodicals, mainly Harper's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly Magazine.
Her first published book, The House of Yorke, appeared in 1872, after having been serialized in the Catholic World from April 1871 to June 1872. The setting of the story is her home, Ellsworth, during the Know-Nothing times of 1854-55; the atmosphere and the philosophy of the novel are decidedly religious.
From 1873 to 1887 she lived in Italy. After that period she lived almost uninterruptedly in Boston until her death, which occurred in Dorchester, frequently contributing sketches and short stories to magazines, notably the Catholic World.
She published eleven novels and books of sketches, among them By The Tiber (1881), Aurora (1886), Two Coronets (1889), San Salvador (1892), and Autumn Leaves (1899), which contains some verse.
The most popular of these, Signor Monaldini's Niece (1879), is, indeed, characterized by delicate descriptive touches which serve pleasingly to recreate the atmosphere of Rome, but whatever charm she possessed as a novelist lay in her ability to describe atmospheric lights and shadows, and not in any especial stylistic or imaginative excellence. In this novel appears her one strong social protest, that against the conventional restriction of woman's freedom, especially the freedom of the unmarried woman.
Her last book, fittingly called Autumn Leaves, was issued in 1898, and contained matter contributed not long before to The Catholic World. Tincker died in Boston.
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At twenty she embraced the Catholic faith, an action which was profoundly to influence all her later work. It would be difficult to overestimate the influence which her religion had upon her writing or her life.
Her novels were highly praised by contemporary reviewers for their rich imagination and Christian spirit.
She was made a member of the Ancient Academy of Arcadia of Rome, and of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia.
She had been a precocious child of wilful temperament, now gay, now melancholy, adjectives which fittingly describe contrasting moods in her novels.
She was in poor health all the latter years of her life, doing her writing under serious physical handicaps.
