When Grandmamma Was New
Marion Harland
Paperback
(Dodo Press, Oct. 31, 2008)
Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune (1830-1922) was an American author who wrote under the penname Marion Harland. She was born as Mary Virginia Hawes and was raised in Dennisville, Virginia where she had a brother: George P. Hawes. She married Edward Payson Terhune, a New Jersey clergyman. In 1844 she moved to Richmond, Virginia, then moved to Newark, New Jersey in 1859. She later wrote with her daughter Christine Terhune Herrick, and her son, Albert Payson Terhune was also a writer. She died in New York City in 1922. She started publishing household advice and cookbooks in 1871, starting with the successful Common Sense in the Household. Her other works include: Alone (1854), The Hidden Path (1855), Moss-Side (1857), Nemesis (1860), Miriam (1863), Husks; or, Colonel Floyd’s Wards (1865), Husbands and Homes (1865), Colonel Floyd’s Wards (1866), Sunnybank (1866), The Christmas Holly (1867), Phemie’s Temptation (1869), At Last (1870), Jessamine (1873), From My Youth Up (1874), Home Topics (1899), When Grandmamma Was New (1899) and others.