Mary (Raymond) Shipman ANDREWS
Born 2 April 1860, Mobile, Alabama; died 2 August 1936, Syracuse, New York
Mary Shipman Andrews, a popular fiction writer of the early 20th century, was raised and educated in Lexington, Kentucky. Her husband was a lawyer. Andrews lived most of her married life in Syracuse, New York, spending her summers in the family’s wilderness camp in Quebec.
Andrews’ first published story was “Crowned with Glory and Honor” (1902), From 1902 until 1929 her many stories appeared, chiefly in Scribner’s, but also in other leading journals. Most of these stories were later published in book form, in such collections as The Militants (1907), The Eternal Masculine (1913), and The Eternal Feminine (1916). Some of her best known stories, such as The Perfect Tribute (1906), appeared first in Scribner’s and were later published as separate books. She also wrote novels, notably The Marshal (1912), a historical novel set in Napoleonic times; a book of World War I poetry, Crosses of War (1918); and a biography of Florence Nightingale, A Lost Commander (1929). However, it is her short tales which are of interest to the literary historian.