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Sherwood Bonner (McDowell)
Holly Springs,
MS,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
34° 46' 18.6564",
-89° 25' 58.3932"
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Mississippi State
Historical Marker |
Home of distinguished 19th-century woman writer, who pioneered in dialect stories. Served as secretary and inspiration to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Last updated: 6/17/2009 10:15:00
| StoppingPoints.com Editorial on Sherwood Bonner (McDowell): | Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (February 1849 - 22 July 1883) was a female author of America's Gilded Age. She is highly significant both as an author a and 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. |
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Sherwood Bonner (McDowell) Historical Marker Location Map, Holly Springs, Mississippi
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