Mary Ross Banks

**Mary Ross Banks** ( née, **Ross** ; bayan auren farko, **Bowdre** ; bayan auren na biyu, **Banks** ; Maris 4, 1846 - Satumba 15, 1910) marubuciya ce 'yar Amurka a ƙarni na sha tara .  Shahararriyar adabinta ta zo mata ba zato ba tsammani kuma sakamakon wani littafi ne, *Bright Days on the Old Plantation* (Boston, 1882).

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi

An haifi Mary Matthews Ross a Macon, Georgia, a ranar 4 ga Maris, 1846.     A gefen mahaifinta, ta fito ne daga zuriyar Scotland. Kakanta, Luke Ross (1775-1844), mutum ne mai arziki a zamaninsa, kuma yana da gida mai kyau, wanda ake jigilar kayan daki da kekunan hawa daga birnin New York zuwa North Carolina . Ya koma Gundumar Jones, Georgia, lokacin da Macon ƙaramin tashar jiragen ruwa ce ta kasuwanci. Mahaifin Mrs. Banks, John Bennett Ross, yana ɗaya daga cikin 'yan'uwa bakwai da 'yan'uwa mata uku. 'Yan'uwan Ross sun kafa kansu a cikin ciniki a kusan shekara ta 1832, wanda ya haifar da nasarar kasuwanci. Akwai canje-canje a cikin lokaci, wasu 'yan'uwa sun fara wasu nau'ikan kasuwanci, amma John B. Ross ya ci gaba da kasuwancin kayayyaki na jimilla da na dillalai da kuma na masu shuka har sai da ya mutu kuma ya sami babban arziki har aka san shi da "babban ɗan kasuwa na Kudu." Gidansa shine cibiyar nishaɗi, kuma an renon 'ya'yansa cikin jin daɗi. Ya yi aure sau uku, matarsa ta biyu, Martha Redding, ta fito ne daga Lanes da Flewellens, kuma ita ce mahaifiyar Banks.  Banks yana da 'yan'uwa 11,  sun haɗa da 'yan'uwa mata Flora da Violet,  da ɗan'uwa, William Henry Ross. 

Banks ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Mata ta Wesleyan, a Macon, da kuma makarantar Mrs. Theodosia Bartow Ford mai zaman kanta. 

## Sana'a
A shekara ta 1863, Banks ya auri Edward Preston Bowdre (1839 – 1874) na Macon, a lokacin kyaftin ne a rundunar sojojin Confederate States . Ta je aikin soja tare da mijinta kuma ta yi aiki a asibitoci. Tana da shekaru ashirin da biyar, bazawara ce mai 'ya'ya maza uku, ciki har da Jack Ross Bowdre da Julien Leon Bowdre, kuma dukiyar iyalanta ta ɓace saboda Yaƙin Basasa na Amurka .

A watan Yunin 1875, ta auri Dr. John Truman Banks (1829–1880) na Griffin, Georgia, wani mutum mai matsayi, zamantakewa da sana'a, kuma ta zauna tare da shi tsawon shekaru huɗu har zuwa rasuwarsa. Ta damu da baƙin cikinta, ta tafi aiki don taimaka wa kanta da 'ya'yanta maza, duk da cewa ba ta da horo na kasuwanci, kuma ba ta da ilimin aiki. Ta kasance mai nasara a fannin manomi kuma ta mayar da yawancin baiwarta da nasarorinta zuwa neman kuɗi. Bayan ta renon 'ya'yanta maza zuwa lokacin 'yancin kai, ta karɓi aiki a Ma'aikatar Harkokin Cikin Gida a Washington, DC, inda aka tura ta aiki a ofishin Sakatare . 

Shaharar da Banks ta samu a fannin adabi ta zo mata ba zato ba tsammani kuma sakamakon wani littafi ne mai suna " *Bright Days on the Old Plantation"* (Boston, 1882).  Labari ne na rayuwa a wani babban gona a Georgie a zamanin Antebellum, wanda ya dogara ne akan abubuwan da marubucin ya fuskanta.  Akwai kuma zane-zane da gajerun labarai da aka buga a jaridu da mujallu daban-daban. 

Banks memba ne na ƙungiyar ' Ya'yan Juyin Juya Halin Amurka, kuma an naɗa shi wakili a taron nahiyar Afirka na watan Afrilun 1910, a madadin reshen Mary Hammon Washington na Macon. 

## Mutuwa
Banks ya mutu a Washington, DC,  a ranar 15 ga Satumba, 1910 yana da shekaru 64,  kuma an tsare shi a Griffin, Georgia . 

## Zaɓaɓɓun ayyuka

* *Kwanaki Masu Haske a Tsohon Gonaki*, 1882

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