Mary Westbrook Van Deusen

Mary Westbrook Van Deusen
Mary Westbrook Van Deusen
Born	February 13, 1829; Fishkill, New York
Died	October 16, 1908 (aged 79)
Nationality	American
Notable works	Rachel Du Mont: A Brave Little Maid of the Revolution (1883)

Mary Westbrook Van Deusen (February 13, 1829 – October 16, 1908), publishing under the name Mary Westbrook, was an American author of prose and verse.

Career[edit]

She was born Mary Amanda Westbrook in Fishkill, New York, the daughter of Cornelius de Puy Westbrook, a pastor of the Dutch Church in nearby Peekskill, and Sarah (Beekman) Westbrook. In 1865 she married James Lansing Van Deusen of Rondout, New York.^[1]

She published both prose and poetry, mainly through the Freeman Company, of Kingston, New York. Her 1883 novel Rachel Du Mont: A Brave Little Maid of the Revolution was about the burning of Kingston during the American Revolution. It was successful enough to go through three editions in one year.^[1]

Books[edit]

Novels

Rachel Du Mont (1883)
Gertrude Willoughby

Verse

"Voices of My Heart"

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Willard, Frances E., and Mary A. Livermore, eds. "Mary Westbrook Van Deusen". In A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Moulton, 1893.

[WotC-1] Willard, Frances E., and Mary A. Livermore, eds. "Mary Westbrook Van Deusen". In A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Moulton, 1893.

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