Mary C. Ames was a 19th-century American journalist, author, and poet. She wrote poetry and prose, including novels. Her complete works were published at Boston. She gained newspaper experience with the Springfield, Massachusetts Republican, the New York Press (1865), and the Brooklyn Daily Union (1869–71). In 1871, she received US$5,000 for her work, the largest salary ever paid a newspaper woman up to that time. In later life, she moved to Washington, D.C., where her home was a literary and social centre, and on June 19, 1883, she married Edmund Hudson, editor of the Army and Navy Register. She became best known for her "Woman's Letter from Washington", which she contributed for many years to the New York Independent.
Mary Cadogan was an English author. She wrote extensively on popular and children's fiction including biographies of the creators of William Brown and Billy Bunter.
Mary Caroline Crawford was an American author, social worker and reformer, and suffragist. Her many books about the history of Boston and New England caused her to be called "Boston's social historian".
Mary Carolyn Davies (1888–?) was an American writer from Oregon. She was a poet, short story writer, and playwright. She lived for a period in New York, where she was a participant of several writing soirées. She later moved back to Oregon, where she led writing organizations. She again moved back to New York in the 1930s, and after this, she was no longer in the public eye. It is not known when she died, but by 1940, she had been sick for a few years.
Mary Catherine Crowley was an American author of poems and novels. She was also an accomplished musician and linguist. Crowley began her literary work in 1877 as a contributor of poems and short stories to Wide Awake, St. Nicholas Magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, and The Pilot. In 1892, she went to Europe and on her return, lived for ten years in Detroit, where she was a collaborator on the Memorial History of the city. Crowley was a recognized authority on the early history of that city, and a leader in its bicentennial celebration in 1901, the pageant being founded on descriptions in her book A Daughter of New France.
Mary Catherine Rowsell was an English novelist, author of children's fiction, and dramatist. Her education in Belgium and Germany resulted in books based on German folk tales, and on French historical personages. Most of her children's books were set around well-know historical events.
Mary Cholmondeley was an English novelist. Her bestseller, Red Pottage, satirised religious hypocrisy and the narrowness of country life. It was adapted as a silent film in 1918.
