Kate McPhelim Cleary

1863-1905

A Gallant Lady

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Timeline
A Timeline for the life of Kate M. Cleary from her birth in New Brunswick, Canada, to her death in Chicago, Illinois.

"A Gallant Lady Reclaimed"
At the turn-of-the-nineteenth century, Kate M. Cleary was well-known in the Midwest, especially in Nebraska and in the Chicago area, as a humorist and a writer of realistic, sometimes naturalistic, stories about the settlement period of the West. Her best works appeared between 1895 and 1899, years of extreme stress, both financial and emotional, in her life. This critical/biographical essay tracing Cleary's life and the significance of her works in American literature is published in American Women Prose Writers, 1870-1920 in the Dictionary of Literary Biography edited by Susan Harris.

"The New Woman in the West: The Social Satire of Kate M. Cleary"
This is a paper presented at the Western Literature Association Conference.

"Kate M. Cleary and the Cult of True Womanhood"
This paper by Stacy Oberembt discusses the humorous and satirical portrayal of the True Woman in Cleary's "An Ornament to Society"

Table of Contents
The Table of Contents of Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works by Susanne K. George

University of Nebraska Press
The Home Page of the University of Nebraska Press, publishers of Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works by Susanne K. George

Short Stories by Kate M. Cleary
The following are selected short stories not included in Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works.
"Lost in a Cornfield"
"Gettin' Shet of Mary Mason"
"His Onliest One"
"On the Way West"
"The Road That Didn't Lead Anywhere"





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