←Author Index: Wo Nancy Mann Waddle Woodrow
(1867–1935)
Wrote under the name "Mrs. Wilson Woodrow"

A native of Chillicothe, Ohio, Nancy Mann Waddle was born in 1867, one of the daughters of Dr. William Waddle and his wife, Janet. In 1897, Miss Waddle married James Wilson Woodrow, an engineer. In November 1905, Mrs. Woodrow divorced her husband on grounds of desertion. She had already established herself as a literary contributor to various periodicals and some years later began writing novels under the pseudonym Mrs. Wilson Woodrow. She died of a heart attack in New York City on September 7, 1935 and was buried in Grandview Cemetery in Chillicothe.

Works

Novels

  • The new missioner
  • Sally Salt
  • Swallowed up
  • The hornet's nest
  • The beauty
  • The Black Pearl
  • The Silver Butterfly
  • The Hornet's Nest

Short stories

  • A little widow
  • Her That Danced
  • The Sportin' Blood of Zenith
  • The Return of the Gypsy
  • The Lady Peddlar and the Diplomats
  • The Wages of Salvation
  • Somepin Nice for Celia
  • The Devil's Daughter

Non-fiction

  • The bird of time; being conversations with Egeria


Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1924.

The author died in 1935, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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