Mary Catherine Crowley

Mary Catherine Crowley (28 November 1856 - ) was an American writer of poems and prose. She was also an accomplished musician and linguist.

Biography

Mary Catherine Crowley was born 28 November 1856, in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father, John Colman Crowley, was a Harvard graduate, and her mother, Mary Jane Cameron, a graduate of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville, New York. She was descended from Scotch ancestry. Her early education was with the Sisters of Notre Dame, and she was an alumna of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Manhattanville. In the early 1880s, Crowley and her parents moved to Detroit, Michigan.

Crowley was the editor of the Catholic Mission Magazine and The Annals of the Propagation of the Faith since 1907. She contributed to many Catholic magazines and periodicals, notably "Fr. Russell's Magazine," "The Irish Monthly," and "The Ave Maria", as well as being a contributor to secular magazines for young people, such as the "St. Nicholas," "Youth's Companion," and magazines for older readers.

Crowley was known for her contributions to juvenile literature. She was one of the historians on the "Memorial History of Detroit," and was considered an authority on the early history of that city. Shge suggested and brought about the erection of a memorial tablet to Marie-Therese Guyon ("Mme. Cadillac, the first white woman of the Northwest").

Selected works

• 1889, Happy-go-lucky and other stories
• 1889, Merry hearts and true : stories from life
• 1890, An every-day girl
• 1892, Tramp and trinkets abroad, and other stories
• 1894, The City of Wonders : a souvenir of the Worlds̓ Fair
• 1898, The child crusaders, and other stories
• 1901, A daughter of New France. With some account of the gallant Sieur Cadillac and his colony on the Detroit. Illus. by Clyde O. De Land
• 1902, The heroine of the Strait; a romance of Detroit in the time of Pontiac, by Mary Catherine Crowley. With a frontispiece by Ch. Grunwald
• 1903, Love thrives in war; a romance of the frontier in 1812
• 1906, In treaty with honor : a romance of old Quebec