In this letter to the New York Times, published on June 9, 1900, L. F. A. Maulsby suggests an unseemly similarity between the plots of Mary Johnston‘s newly published novel To Have and to Hold and The Head of a Hundred (1897) by Maud Wilder Goodwin.
In a review published in the New York Times on November 2, 1913, the critic Helen Bullis considers Mary Johnston‘s Hagar as both a novel and a tract on woman suffrage and women’s rights more generally.
In this excerpt from the novel Prisoners of Hope (1898) by Mary Johnston, an indentured servant called Godfrey Landless secretly meets with another servant, Robert Godwyn, or “the mender of nets,” to speak of the possibility of rebellion. Johnston’s book is set in Gloucester County, 1663, and is loosely based on the Gloucester County Conspiracy.
In this excerpt of a review of two new novels, published on November 11, 1898, an anonymous writer for the Chicago Tribune praises Prisoners of Hope by Mary Johnston. Set in 1663, the novel is based in part on the Gloucester County Conspiracy, which involved a planned rebellion by indentured servants, who intended to march on the home of Governor Sir William Berkeley.
Chapter 2 of Blake; or, The Huts of America, Martin R. Delany’s novel, first serialized in The Anglo-African Magazine, depicts a dinner scene in Natchez, Mississippi between a Mississippi planter, his wife, and a northern visitor. During the conversation, the three discuss the pressing political issues of the day, and the northern visitor reveals that she wants to take the favorite slave of the mistress on a trip to Cuba.
In this review of The Knights of the Horse Shoe (1845), the editors of the Southern Quarterly Review praise the style and moral of the book and eagerly anticipate the publication of the author William Alexander Caruthers‘s next book.
In this article, dated March 14, 1835, the editors of the New York Mirror review several books, among them The Cavaliers of Virginia (1834–1835), by William Alexander Caruthers.
In “Mary Johnston in Her Home,” published in the New York Times on March 24, 1900, writer Annie Kendrick Walker attempts to profile Mary Johnston despite the author’s unwillingness to speak on the record. Johnston’s second novel, To Have and to Hold, had just been published.
In this short feature, published on July 15, 1899, an anonymous writer for the New York Times praises Mary Johnston on the publication of her first novel, Prisoners of Hope (1898), based in part on the Gloucester County Conspiracy (1663).
In this review, published on October 3, 1908, a writer for the Kansas City Star signed E. F. S. praises Lewis Rand, a novel by Mary Johnston.
