Mary Ashley Townsend
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Works by Mary Ashley Townsend
(1836-1901)
| 1874 | The Captain's Story, and Other Verse. The title poem of Townsend's collection creates a controversy with its subject matter: a white man's discovery that his mother was a mulatto. The New York writer drew on her experiences living in New Orleans for her poetry and the novel The Brother Clerks (1857). |
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