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Mary Hallock Foote

American novelist

Mary Hallock Foote

Mary Hallock Foote (c.1874)

Born(1847-11-09)November 9, 1847
Milton, New York
DiedJune 25, 1938(1938-06-25) (aged 90)
Hingham, Massachusetts
OccupationWriter, Illustrator
NationalityAmerican
EducationCooper Institute School of Design for Women
Spouse

Arthur De Wint Foote

(m. 1876)​

Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938) was an American author and illustrator.

She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the turn-of-the-century American West.

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Biography

Overview

Mary Hallock was born November 9, 1847, in Milton, New York, of English Quaker ancestry. A singular girl and youth, she attended the Female Collegiate Seminary in Poughkeepsie, New York, then studied art in New York City at the new Cooper Institute School of Design for Women.

By her early twenties she had become Mary Hallock Foote - The North Star House NIHIQ