Henrietta Hardy Hammond


Henrietta Hardy Hammond was an American novelist.
Henrietta Hardy Hammond was born on 1854 in Virginia.
Jane Turner Censer identifies Hammond as one of a number of popular Southern novelists of the 1870s and 1880s who wrote about self-confident and self-sufficient heroines. In A Fair Philosopher, Hammond's heroine starts a philosophy reading group while supporting her family. The Georgians depicts the relationship between Félise Orlanoff, a married French countess who inherits a Georgia estate, and Marcus Laurens, a Southern lawyer.
Henrietta Hardy Hammond died on November 24, 1883, in New York City.

Novels

Her Waiting Heart as Lou CapsadellThe Georgians, anonymously published as No. 3 in the "No Name Series"A Fair Philosopher, as Henri Daugé

Non-fiction

  • ''Woman's Secrets, or How to be Beautiful''