nPARAfPAR@`яяяяяяоTEXT`аTerhune, Mary Virginia Hawes 1830Р1922 writer Born on December 21, 1830, in Dennisville, Amelia County, Virginia, Mary Hawes grew up there and from 1844 in nearby Richmond. She was well educated by private tutors and in her fatherХs library. She also briefly attended schools in HampdenРSydney and in Richmond. She began contributing anonymous sketches and articles to local newspapers when she was fourteen. In 1853 she won a contest for a temperance serial with ТKate Harper,У which was published in the weekly Southern Era under the pseudonym ТMarion Harland.У In 1854 her first novel, Alone, was published privately in Richmond; two years later it appeared in a commercial edition that eventually sold more than 100,000 copies. Also in 1856 her second novel was published as The Hidden Path. In September 1856 she married the Reverend Edward Payson Terhune, with whom she settled in Newark, New Jersey, in 1859. While caring for the home and several children and taking part in parish activities, she continued to write. Subsequent novels, mostly antebellum plantation romances, included Moss-Side, 1857, Nemesis, 1860, At Last, 1863, Helen Gardner, 1864, Sunnybank, 1867, Husbands and Homes, 1868, PhemieХs Temptation, 1868, The Empty Heart, 1869, RubyХs Husband, 1870, True as Steel, 1872, Jessamine, 1873, and My Little Love, 1876. During 1876Р1878 she and her husband traveled in Europe for her health. They lived in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1878Р1884 and in Brooklyn, New York, from 1884. From the publication of the best-selling Common Sense in the Household, 1871, Terhune enjoyed virtually a second career as a writer of books on homemaking and related topics. Her books in that field included Breakfast, Luncheon, and Tea, 1874, The Dinner Year-Book, 1878, EveХs Daughters, 1882, Common Sense in the Nursery, 1885, The National Cook Book, with her daughter Christine Terhune Herrick, 1896, and Every Day Etiquette, with another daughter, Virginia Terhune Van de Water, 1905. She edited at various times the Home-Maker and HousekeeperХs Weekly magazines and contributed articles on homemaking to many others. She wrote syndicated columns on womenХs affairs for the Philadelphia North American in 1900Р1910 and the Chicago Tribune in 1911Р1917. TerhuneХs later novels included Handicapped, 1882, Judith, 1883, A Gallant Fight, 1888, His Great Self, 1892, Dr. Dale, with her son, Albert Payson Terhune (later a well known author, especially of dog stories), 1900, and The Carringtons of High Hill, 1919. She also wrote several volumes of travel sketches, biography, and colonial history, including Loitering in Pleasant Paths, 1880, The Story of Mary Washington, 1892, Home of the Bible, 1896, Some Colonial Homesteads and Their Stories, 1897, Where Ghosts Walk, 1898, Charlotte Bront‘ at Home, 1899, William Cowper, 1899, John Knox, 1900, Hannah More, 1900, and Looking Westward, 1914. Her autobiography, Marion HarlandХs Autobiography, appeared in 1910. She died in New York City on June 3, 1922. Vstyl`j!5Є5Є'5Є/!I!I!IS!IX!I!I!I!I!!Iћ 5Єџ!IP!IY!Ia!Ih!Io!Iw!I!IЊ!I”!Iќ!IҐ!I·!Iї!IТ!IЪ!Iй!Iс!Iя!I!I!I!I%!I1!I?!Iр 5Єс!I!I !I!!I7!IВ!IЮ!Iж!Iх!Iц!Iъ!I!I!I!I(!I)!I4!I<!IR!I‹!Iћ!Iэ!I!I!I !IЁ!I¶!IМ!IЫ!Iм 5Єн!I !I !I !I &!I .!I =!I E!I S!I [!I c!I Л!I з!I N!I i!I q!I Ќ!I •!I ¦!I ®!I Ж!I З!I Ш!I а!I с!I щ!I!I!I'!I/!I8!I@!IK!IW!Ig!I‚!I !Ilink`