Maria I. Johnston

Not to be confused with Mary Johnston (1870–1936), also an author and women's right advocate from Virginia.
Maria I. Johnston
"A Woman of the Century"
"A Woman of the Century"
BornMaria Isabel Barnett
May 3, 1835
Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.
DiedSeptember 3, 1921
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Pen name
  • "Paul Pry"
  • "Neal Caxton"
Occupation
  • author
  • journalist
  • editor
  • lecturer
Spouse
  • Charles Lunsford Buck
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    ​
    (m. 1852; died 1862)​
  • William R. Johnston
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    (m. 1866)​
Children3
Signature

Maria I. Johnston (née, Barnett; after first marriage, Buck; after second marriage, Johnston; pen names, Paul Pry and Neal Caxton; May 3, 1835 – September 3, 1921) was an American author, journalist, editor and lecturer.[1] She wrote many stories, long and short. In her stories, she dealt for the most part with life in the West and South, the conditions caused by war and slavery being considered.[2] She was the author of The Siege of Vicksburg, The Freedwoman, Jane, Hector,[3][4] Oh, Come with Me to the West, Love , Miss Emily's Glove, Ante-Bellum, and The Story of a Confederate Colonel. Johnston was active with newspaper work and was identified with newspapers in St. Louis, New Orleans, Vicksburg, and Memphis. At times, she wrote under the nom de plumes of "Paul Pry" and "Neal Caxton".[5] She was advocate of and writer for woman suffrage.[4]

  1. ^ Logan, Mrs John A. (1912). The Part Taken by Women in American History. Perry-Nalle Publishing Company. p. 819. Retrieved 7 December 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "JOHNSTON, Mrs. Maria I.". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 423–24. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ Herringshaw's American Blue-book of Biography: Prominent Americans of ... American Publishers' Association. 1915. p. 699. Retrieved 7 December 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ a b Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1908). Who's who in America. A.N. Marquis. p. 1013. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference WTT-8apr1905 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).