Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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Mary Hartwell Catherwood was a teacher and an author of popular historical romances, short stories, and poetry. Early in her career she published under her birth name, Mary Hartwell, and under the pseudonym Lewtrah . In 1868, she graduated from Granville Female College in Granville, Ohio. She went on to teach in Ohio and Illinois before she was able to support herself by writing. Her early work was mainly in short stories and long serials which were published in magazines such as the Atlantic and Lippincott’s. In 1889, with the publication of ”The Romance of Dollard”, a historical romance based on the work of Francis Parkman, Catherwood’s life took a new direction. Historians of American fiction suggest that Catherwood’s importance lies in her having been the first novelist to write popular romantic historical novels, forecasting the bestselling genre at the turn of the century. Catherwood was the first woman novelist born west of the Alleghenies and the first woman novelist to be a college graduate.
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