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About Matilda Houstoun
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun was an English travel writer, novelist, biographer, and women's right activist. She is best known for her series of travel writings, particularly Texas and the Gulf of Mexico (1844) and Hesperos, and their observations about African-American life during the times of the Confederate Deep South. Later on, she turned her pen from novels to social reform, particularly on the rights of working class women and single mothers. During her lifetime, her best known work was Recommended to Mercy, a female-driven "yellow-back" novel published in 1862.
Everything about Matilda Houstoun →- Occupation
- travel writer, novelist, writer
- Born
- 1815, 1811
- Died
- 1892