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Maria Louise Pool

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Born:
Aug. 20, 1841, Rockland, Mass., U.S.
Died:
May 19, 1898, Rockland (aged 56)
Movement / Style:
local colour
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Maria Louise Pool (born Aug. 20, 1841, Rockland, Mass., U.S.—died May 19, 1898, Rockland) was an American writer whose sketches were well received in the period when the so-called local colour movement in American literature was just beginning. Pool attended public schools in her hometown of Rockland and for a time was herself a schoolteacher. By the age of 20 she had begun to publish stories in various magazines. She also wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and, during her residence in Brooklyn, New York (1870–77), for the New York Tribune and the Evening Post. Her sketches focused on New England ...(100 of 171 words)

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