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Author, novelist, and playwright Frances Courtenay Baylor, who was born on January 20, 1848, hailed from Fayetteville, Arkansas. During her lifetime, she also called San Antonio, Texas, England, and Winchester, Virginia, home.
She wrote pieces such as "Small Courtesies" in Lippincott's Magazine. In addition, readers would have found her work in The Atlantic Monthly, The Princeton Review, and The Richmond Times-Dispatch. Her "In the Old Dominion" was written for The Atlantic Monthly during 1883, when Frances was living in Winchester, Virginia.
Frances penned a play, "Petruchio Tamed," early in her career and found success with novels such as On Both Sides and Behind the Blue Ridge.
Her A Woman of the Century profile concludes: "Miss Baylor deservedly ranks high as an author of remarkable powers of observation, of judgment, of humorous comment, and of philosophic generalization"(66).
She married George Barnum in 1896, but quickly became a widow. Frances passed away in Winchester, Virginia, on October 19, 1920.
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(Includes reviews of Baylor's On Both Sides)
Courtesy of Cornell University Library, Making of America Digital Collection.
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Bibliography
- El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.), 28 Oct. 1899. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86064199/1899-10-28/ed-1/seq-2/>
- The advocate. (Topeka, Kan.), 10 Nov. 1897. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85032018/1897-11-10/ed-1/seq-13/>