She was well known as the author Marion Harland which was her pen name.
Mary Virginia began to write at the age of 15, sending stories to "The Watchman and Observer", a religious magazine published in Richmond,Virginia.
1854 at the age of 24, Mary Virginia published her first novel titled "ALONE" which was an instant success. Her last novel titled " The Carringtons of High Hill" published in 1919 when she was 88.
Married Edward Payson Terhune in 1856,moving to Newark, New Jersey, in 1859. Edward Terhune, a Presbyterian minister, was given a Pastorate there. She spent most of the rest of her life in the North, and died in New York in 1922.
Mary Virginia began to write at the age of 15, sending stories to "The Watchman and Observer", a religious magazine published in Richmond,Virginia.
1854 at the age of 24, Mary Virginia published her first novel titled "ALONE" which was an instant success. Her last novel titled " The Carringtons of High Hill" published in 1919 when she was 88.
Married Edward Payson Terhune in 1856,moving to Newark, New Jersey, in 1859. Edward Terhune, a Presbyterian minister, was given a Pastorate there. She spent most of the rest of her life in the North, and died in New York in 1922.
She was well known as the author Marion Harland which was her pen name.
Mary Virginia began to write at the age of 15, sending stories to "The Watchman and Observer", a religious magazine published in Richmond,Virginia.
1854 at the age of 24, Mary Virginia published her first novel titled "ALONE" which was an instant success. Her last novel titled " The Carringtons of High Hill" published in 1919 when she was 88.
Married Edward Payson Terhune in 1856,moving to Newark, New Jersey, in 1859. Edward Terhune, a Presbyterian minister, was given a Pastorate there. She spent most of the rest of her life in the North, and died in New York in 1922.
Mary Virginia began to write at the age of 15, sending stories to "The Watchman and Observer", a religious magazine published in Richmond,Virginia.
1854 at the age of 24, Mary Virginia published her first novel titled "ALONE" which was an instant success. Her last novel titled " The Carringtons of High Hill" published in 1919 when she was 88.
Married Edward Payson Terhune in 1856,moving to Newark, New Jersey, in 1859. Edward Terhune, a Presbyterian minister, was given a Pastorate there. She spent most of the rest of her life in the North, and died in New York in 1922.
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