Mary Virginia Terhune
(1830–1922)

American author who wrote under various pennames, most commonly as Marion Harland; married to Edward Payson Terhune and mother of Albert Payson Terhune and Christine Terhune Herrick.

Mary Virginia Terhune

Works

Novels

  • Alone (1854)
  • The Hidden Path (1855)
  • Moss Side (1857) (transcription
  • Nemesis (1860) (transcription)
  • Mariam (1862)
  • Marriage Through Prudential Reasons (published anonymously)
  • Colonel Floyd's Wards (1866)
  • Sunnybank (1866) (transcription)
  • Ruby's Husband (1868)
  • Phemie's Temptation (1869)
  • True as Steel (1872)
  • Jessamine: A Novel (1873)
  • Judith, A Chronicle of Old Virginia (1883)
  • Mr. Wayt's Wife's Sister (1984)
  • With the Best Intensions (1890)
  • His Great Self (1892)
  • The Royal Road; or, Taking Him at His Word (1894)
  • When Grandmamma was New: The Story of a Virginia Childhood (1899)
  • Literary Hearthstones (1902)
  • The Distractions of Martha (1906)
  • The Carringtons of High Hill (1919)

Short story collections

  • Husbands and Homes (1865) (transcription)
  • Handicapped (1881)
  • In Our Country: Stories of Virginia Life (1901)

Non-fiction

  • Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery (1871)
  • Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea (1875)
  • Loiterings in Pleasant Paths (1880)
  • Eve's Daughters (1881)
  • Common Sense in the Nursery (1885)
  • The Story of Mary Washington (1892)
  • Some Colonial Homesteads and Their Stories (1887)
  • Bills of Fare for all Seasons of the Year (1889)
  • House and Home (1889)
  • Home of the Bible: What I Saw and Heard in Palestine (1895)
  • Where Ghosts Walk: The Haunts of Familiar Characters in History and Literature, Series I (1898)
  • Charlotte Brontë at Home (1899)
  • Hannah More (1900)
  • Marion Harland's Complete Cookbook: A Practical and Exhaustive Manual of Cookery and Housekeeping (1903)
  • The Housekeeper's Week (1908)
  • Where Ghosts Walk: The Haunts of Familiar Characters in History and Literature, Series II (1910)
  • Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life (1910)
  • Colonial Homesteads and Their Stories (1912)
  • The Helping Hand Cook Book (1912, with Christine Terhune Herrick)


Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.


The author died in 1922, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 99 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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