Mary Stanbery Watts
Mary Stanbery Watts (Mrs. Miles Taylor Watts) (1868–1958) was an American novelist.
Mary S. Watts, from a 1915 publication.
She was born in Delaware County, Ohio, and educated in Cincinnati. Her work is characterized by frank, faithful, and sympathetic portrayal and interpretation of American life. Her first novel, The Tenants (1908), was followed by Nathan Burke (1910), an historical novel of the Mexican War; The Legacy (1911); Van Cleve (1913), set in the time of the Spanish–American War; The Rise of Jennie Cushing (1915), applying a very modern touchstone to moral values; The Rudder (1916).
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