The prodigal daughter
Subtitle: a biography of Sherwood Bonner
By: Hubert Horton McAlexander.
Edition: Paperback ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: McDowell, Katherine Sherwood Bonner, 1849-1883.; Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Description: "Sometimes enigmatic and often shocking, Sherwood Bonner (Katharine Bonner McDowell, 1849-1883) defied accepted notions of what she ought or ought not to be. Born into the Mississippi planter aristocracy, she married at age twenty-one and bore a child. Less than two years later, however, she left her husband, daughter, and native state to pursue an education in Boston and fulfill her ambition of becoming a writer."--BOOK JACKET.

"Described by one Boston gossip as "a statuesque blond with cataracts of yellow hair," Bonner was befriended by Henry Wadsworth Longellow, who became her mentor and patron, and by James Redpath, a fellow conspirator of John Brown and one of the era's leading radicals. During her short life, Bonner produced short stories, the novel Like Unto Like (1878), and the novella The Valours (1881).

She faded into obscurity after her death, but in recent years her work has been rediscovered - thanks in large part to this biography, which was first published in 1981."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1981. With new introd.
Includes index.
"The works of Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell": p. 231-237.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the paperback edition; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Kate Bonner of Holly Springs; title: The road to Boston; title: The birth of Sherwood Bonner; title: A woman of two worlds; title: The early stories and Like unto like; title: A woman of mettle; title: The later stories and The Valcours; title: The legacy of Sherwood Bonner; title: Bibliography: the works of Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell; title: Index.