Katherine Sherwood Bonner Mc Dowell
Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (February 1849 – July 22, 1883) was a female author of America's Gilded Age. She is highly significant both as an author and as a feminist icon in an age when it was difficult for women to break away from the accepted norm of husband and household and as such may be considered a romantic heroine of Gilded age feminism. She is also simply known as Sherwood Bonner, which was her pen name.
Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi in February 1849 to a wealthy and aristocratic family, Bonner turned tradition on its head and left both husband and child behind to pursue her literary dreams. Achieving nothing more than a pleasant mediocrity in the literary world and a financial drain on her benefactors, Bonner was nonetheless recognized as an influential and inspirational figure by her contemporaries as well as current students of her work and life.
Read more about Katherine Sherwood Bonner Mc Dowell: Childhood and Early Life, The Road To Boston, Early Literary Career, Literary Works, The End of The Road, Sources
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