History of Rockland, (Plymouth County) Massachusetts United States of America

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A Biography of Maria Louise Pool

Maria Louise Pool, author, was born at Rockland, Mass., Aug. 20, 1841; daughter of Elias and Lydia (Lane) Pool. She attended the public schools of Rockland, and afterward taught there so long as her health permitted. She removed to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1877, and later made her home in Wrentham and Rockland, Mass., successively. Besides many articles in newspapers and magazines she wrote: A Vacation in a Buggy (1887); Tenting at Stony Beach (1888); Dally (1891); Rowney in Boston (1892); Mrs. Keats Bradford and Katharine North (1893); Out of Step and The Two Salomes (1894); Against Human Nature (1895); In a Dyke Shanty (1896); Mrs. Gerald (1896); In Buncombe County (1896); In the First Person (1896); Boss and other Dogs; Friendship and Folly (1898); A Golden Sorrow (1898); and A Widower and Some Spinsters; The Meloon Farm and Sand 'n' Bushes, published posthumensly. She died in Rockland, Mass., May 19,1898.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor