Title:
Mary Austin letters, 1913-1914
Austin letters
Creator/Contributor:
Austin, Mary Hunter, 1868-1934, creator
Abstract:
2 typewritten and hand-signed letters from Mary Austin to James L. Gillis.
Date:
1913 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Gillis, J. L. (James Louis) -- 1857-1917
Note:
Mary Hunter was born in Carlinville, Illinois on on September 9, 1868. She came to California in the late 1880s, and married
Safford Wallace Austin on May 19, 1891. She and her husband lived in Owens Valley for the next fourteen years and became involved
in the local water disputes as she began her writing career. Mary also came in contact with the local Paiute and Shoshone
Indians, which influenced her writing. After the water battles were lost, Mary split from her husband, moved to Carmel, and
became part of an art and literary circle that included Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, and George Sterling. Mary eventually
moved to the Southwest and continued her writing, which incorporated feminist and environmental sensibility, and Native American,
Hispanic, and European mythological traditions. She died in Santa Fe, New Mexico on August 13, 1934.
Austin letters.
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.
Physical Description:
print
Two letters; 8 1/2 x 11 in.
Language:
English
Identifier:
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.