Pengarang: Mary Daggett

Mary Stewart Daggett (1856-1922) was an American author. Married to Charles Stewart Daggett, with whom she had three daughters and a son, her family settled in Pasadena, California in 1889. Mary wrote several novels, including The Higher Court, The Yellow Angel, Mariposilla, and The Broad Aisle. She also wrote plays, sketches, articles, poems and short stories. Set against the backdrop of a nation expanding as quickly as it was changing, Mary Stewart Daggett’s works, which take place in the Midwest and California, explore themes of family, religion, obligation, and romance. Her characters face the onrush of modernity as they navigate the complexities of psychological and societal pressure, exhibiting a depth of emotion often disregarded in the fiction of today.