McIntosh, Maria (1803–1878)

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McIntosh, Maria (1803–1878)

American novelist. Born Maria Jane McIntosh, 1803, in Sunbury, Liberty Co., GA; died Feb 25, 1878, in Morristown, NJ; dau. of Lachlan McIntosh (lawyer) and Mary (Moore) Maxwell.

Under pen name Aunt Kitty, wrote series of children's books later collected into Aunt Kitty's Tales (1847); published 8 novels, the most successful of which was Charms and Counter-Charms (1848); critical of early woman's movement in non-fiction Woman in America: Her Work and Her Reward (1850), was known for sentimental fiction that espoused piety and virtue and periodically criticized abolition; also wrote Conquest and Self-Conquest (1843), The Lofty and the Lowly (1853), Violet; or, The Cross and the Crown (1856) and Two Pictures (1863).

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