Caroline M. Branson & Maria Louise Pool

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Maria Louise Pool (August 20, 1841 – May 18, 1898) was an American writer. (P: Wallach Division: Print Collection. Maria Louise Pool (©1))

She was born in Rockland, Massachusetts to Elias Pool and Lydia Lane. She attended the public school of the town (then East Abington), and later taught school for two years. She moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1870, where she first wrote for a Philadelphia paper and afterward for the New York Evening Post and the New York Tribune. Later she resided in Wrentham, Massachusetts. It was not until 1887 that she became widely known through her A Vacation in a Buggy.

Her work was reviewed extensively, as by the New York Times, but has lapsed into obscurity. She was an influence upon the young Canadian-American writer Mary MacLane, who became friends with Pool's "literary companion" Caroline M. Branson. Branson and MacLane lived together from 1902 to 1908 in the house Branson and Pool had lived in. (

P: Mary MacLane (From the inside cover of The Story of Mary MacLane, Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1902) (©1))

Most of her literary work, which consists of sketches (chiefly of New England life) and social novels, appeared in the periodicals, and was later issued in book form.


Caroline M. Branson & Maria Louise Pool are buried together in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Rockland, Massachusetts.
Maria Louise Pool was an American writer. She was an influence upon the young Canadian-American writer Mary MacLane, who became friends with Pool's companion Caroline M. Branson after Pool's death. When Pool died, the Rockland newspaper, named, among the survivors of Pool, Caroline, her "literary companion.” Branson and MacLane lived together from 1902 to 1908 in the house Branson and Pool had lived in. Pool and Branson are buried together in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Rockland, Massachusetts.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Louise_Pool

Days of Love: Celebrating LGBT History One Story at a Time by Elisa Rolle
Paperback: 760 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (July 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1500563323
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
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