[Maria Jane]. American authoress, born at Sunbury, GA, in 1803. She moved to New York in 1835, and having suffered financial loss in the panic of 1837, turned her attention to literature. Her first work was Blind Alice, published in 1841, after which followed four other juvenile tales, the five being published collectively under the title Aunt Kitty’s Tales in 1847. Among her other books are Conquest and Self-Conquest (1844); Woman in America (1850); Meta Gray (1858). She died on the 25th of February 1878.
