Tricia Foley

Mary L. Booth Tricia Foley

Mary L. Booth: The Story of an Extraordinary 19th-Century Woman. Writer, historian, editor, translator, abolitionist, suffragist, Booth knew everyone who was anyone in the 19th-century worlds of literature and the arts, government and publishing. She translated 47 books, wrote the first History of the City of New York and was the founding editor of Harper's Bazar. She touched the lives of thousands of women, with her weekly magazine, but her story has been lost as there is no archive of her writing, her work. This illustrated biography tells the story of her family background, her early days as a journalist, her connection to Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty and the American Pre-Raphaelites. 120 period illustrations and photographs of Booth and her friends, her office, her New York City townhouses and letters from literary colleagues bring to life her 19th-century world.