Pike, Mary Hayden Green

Pike, Mary Hayden Green

▪ American novelist
née  Mary Hayden Green,  pseudonym  Mary Langdon  or  Sydney A. Story, Jr. 
born Nov. 30, 1824, Eastport, Maine, U.S.
died Jan. 15, 1908, Baltimore, Md.

      American novelist, best remembered for her popular books of the Civil War era on racial and slavery themes.

      Pike studied at the Female Seminary in Charlestown, Massachusetts (1840–43). Her first novel, Ida May (1854), was published under the pseudonym Mary Langdon. A melodramatic tale of a child of wealthy white parents who is kidnapped and sold into slavery, the book was an immediate success. Riding to some extent on the coattails of Uncle Tom's Cabin, published two years earlier, Ida May sold some 60,000 copies in less than two years and appeared in several British editions and in German translation. In 1856, under the name Sydney A. Story, Jr., Pike published Caste: A Story of Republican Equality, which tells of a quadroon girl forbidden to marry a white man. It received much favourable critical comment. Agnes (1858), her last book, concerns a North American protagonist in the time of the Revolution. Pike also contributed to the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Graham's, and other magazines. She later abandoned writing for landscape painting.

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