Mary Ross Banks

Mary Ross Banks
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Mary Matthews Ross March 4, 1846 Macon, Georgia, U.S.
Died	September 15, 1910 (aged 64) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place	Griffin, Georgia, U.S.
Occupation	litterateur author
Alma mater	Wesleyan Female College
Genre	novels sketches short stories
Notable works	Bright Days on the Old Plantation
Spouse	Edward Preston Bowdre ​ ​ (m. 1863; died 1874)​ John Truman Banks ​ ​ (m. 1875; died 1880)​
Children	4 sons[1]

Mary Ross Banks (née, Ross; after first marriage, Bowdre; after second marriage, Banks; March 4, 1846 – September 15, 1910) was an American writer of the long nineteenth century.^[2] Her literary fame came to her suddenly and was the result of one book, Bright Days on the Old Plantation (Boston, 1882).