1865): Novelist And Poet Mary Fenollosa Was Born

Alabama News Center | March 7, 2017 @ 5:30 pm

By Graydon Rust
Alabama 200

March 8, 1865

Novelist and poet Mary McNeil Fenollosa was born in Wilcox County. Known for creating believable and complex characters and settings, Fenollosa released her first novel, Truth Dexter, in 1901 under her pseudonym, Sidney McCall. The novel received immediate critical and popular success. Fenollosa published nine novels, leading to popular adaptations in film, theater and opera. The wife of Asian culture scholar and art collector Ernest Fenollosa, Mary Fenollosa also completed his authoritative study, Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art: An Outline History of East Asiatic Design, after his death in 1908.

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