Ann Sophia (Winterbotham) Stephens Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 8 pages of information about the life of Ann Sophia (Winterbotham) Stephens.

Ann Sophia (Winterbotham) Stephens Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 8 pages of information about the life of Ann Sophia (Winterbotham) Stephens.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Ann Sophia (Winterbotham) Stephens

Ann Stephens is now remembered as the author of the first Beadle Dime Novel, Malaeska; The Indian Wife of the White Hunter (1860). During the mid nineteenth century, however, Stephens enjoyed a long lasting, lucrative career as one of the best known and most respected American women writers. In addition to serving as either editor or co-editor for six popular magazines for more than twenty-six years, she wrote some forty-five works of fiction and manuals on the domestic arts. Some now credit Stephens as having been one of the first generation of women writers to assert themselves as professional writers, entering the field of authorship for the sake of earning a good living rather than hiding behind a claim of literary philanthropy. Stephens made a name for herself as a popular writer and editor as early as the 1830s and grew to become one of the best-known American women...

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