Woods, Katharine Pearson (1853–1923)

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Woods, Katharine Pearson (1853–1923)

American novelist. Born Jan 28, 1853, in Wheeling, VA; died Feb 19, 1923, in Baltimore, MD; dau. of Alexander Quarrier Woods (tobacco merchant) and Josephine Augusta (McCabe) Woods.

Secretly wrote and anonymously published 1st novel, Metzerott, Shoemaker (1889), which advocated economic reform for working people, based on Christian principals, and was acclaimed; also wrote Web of Gold (1890), From Dusk to Dawn (1892), John: A Tale of King Messiah (1896), The Son of Ingar (1897), and The True Story of Captain John Smith (1901).

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