Mary Agnes Tincker
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Mary Agnes Tincker (July 18, 1833 – December 4, 1907) was an American novelist.
[edit] Life and Works
Tincker was born in Ellsworth, Maine. At the age of thirteen she began teaching in the public schools. At fifteen her first literary work was printed. At twenty she became a Catholic, and even her Protestant relatives shared in her sufferings from Know-Nothing bigotry. In 1863 she became a volunteer war nurse, serving in Washington until she grew ill. Boston then became her home. Short stories from her pen appeared in the early numbers of The Catholic World, where also her first novel The House of Yorke was issued as a serial (1871–72). It was followed by Grapes and Thorns (1873–74) and Six Sunny Months (1876–77). The latter was the first fruit of her sojourn in Italy (1873–87). These three novels sounded a distinctly new note in Catholic literature and the highest that had been struck by an American Catholic novelist up to that point, according to Regina Jenkins, writing for the Catholic Encyclopedia in 1912.[1] Signor Monaldini's Niece (1879), in the No Name series; By the Tiber (1881); The Jewel in the Lotus (1884); Aurora (1885); The Two Coronets (1887); and San Salvador (1889) were issued by the most prominent literary publishers and won her great fame. They reflected for the most part the beauty of Italy. Her last book, fittingly called Autumn Leaves (1898) was issued by a Catholic firm, and contained matter contributed not long before to The Catholic World. Tincker died in Boston.
[edit] References
This article incorporates text from the entry Mary Agnes Tincker in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
- ^ "Mary Agnes Tincker". The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. XIV. New York: 1912, Robert Appleton.
