Mary roberts rinehart biography
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We’ve all heard the big Maine literature names from days of old: Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, E.B. White, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edna St. Vincent Millay. I love them all. However, there is more to Maine literary history than these venerable writers. I’ve been astounded to realize that many popular-in-their-day genre fiction writers also resided in Maine at some point in their life.
Take one standout, Mary Roberts Rinehart, for example.
Background
Mary Roberts Rinehart was born in Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh) in In , she began writing as a way to earn money when her husband’s finances took a downturn. A short story appeared in Munsey’s Magazine, and from there on out she wrote as a professional. Her first full-length novel, The Circular Staircase, came out in , and like many writers of that time period, she also serialized novels in magazines. Those novels ended up being published as books.
One serialization appeared in The Saturda • Mary Roberts Rinehart was born in Allegheny City (now the North Side of Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania in Early in her life her father held a relatively prosperous position as a sewing machine agent while her mother earned extra money for the household as a dressmaker. As a young woman she was an avid reader, borrowing Dumas, Balzac, Zola, and others from the Mayor's office library. However, her passion for literature was, and remained to be, always for the stories themselves as opposed to their more critical implications. She entered high school opting for the English program in which she received mediocre grades reflecting the financial problems that plagued her household as her father had lost his sewing machine franchise and embarked on a series of unprofitable inventions of his brother's and his design. Her gift for writing was clear even then with the publication of several short stories in Pittsburgh newspapers while in high school. At the generosity of her uncle, Mary entered n • Mary robert Rinehart (August 12, September 22, ) was an American author and the source of the phrase "The butler did it." Rinehart was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father was a frustrated inventor, and through her childhood, the family often had financial problems. She was born left-handed, in the days when this was looked upon as irrational and unladylike. To make her use her right grabb, the left was tied behind her back. Her parents were Thomas B. and Cornelia robert. She early learned about financial insecurity. Her father was a frustrated uppfinnare, whose most practical invention was a rotary shuttle for sewing machines. He hated the sewing machine business. Mrs. Rinehart's mother took in two boarders and made Mary help with the housework, after school, and take piano lessons--both of which she hated with equal vigor. Her grandmother, partially blind, was a seamstress. When she was in Allegheny High School she got $1
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