[pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune]. American authoress, born in Amelia County, VA, in 1830. Her father was Samuel P. Hawes, formerly of Massachusetts, but who afterward went to Virginia, and there established a mercantile business. Miss Hawes began writing at an early age; at fourteen she was a regular contributor to a weekly paper in Richmond, and two years later sent a sketch entitled, Marrying Through Prudential Motives, to a magazine. In 1856 Miss Hawes married a minister named E. P. Terhune, and moved North, making her home mainly in Newark, NJ, and in Springfield, MA. She was an untiring writer, and has contributed largely to magazines. She edited a monthly called Babyhood for two years, besides conducting departments in Wide Awake and St. Nicholas. In 1888 she established a magazine called The Home-Maker. Her publications include Alone (1854); The Hidden Path (1855); Moss-Side (1857); Sunnybank (1866); Christmas Holly (1867); Miriam (1860); Husks (1863); Husbands and Homes (1865); Helen Gardner’s Wedding Day (1867); Ruby’s Husband (1868); Phemie’s Temptation (1869); At Last (1870); Jessamine (1870); Handicapped (1881); Judith (1883); A Gallant Fight (1888); His Great Self (1892); My Little Love (new edition, 1893); and Mr. Wayt’s Wife’s Sister and Other Stories (1894).
