Clara M. Thompson

For the psychoanalyst, see Clara Thompson.

Clara M. Thompson
Nationality	American
Other names	Clara M. Thompson Logan
Occupation	Novelist
Years active	1854–1873
Notable work	The Chapel of St. Mary (1861)

Clara M. Thompson (b. 1830s?) was an American novelist. She also wrote under the name Clara M. Thompson Logan. ^[1]

Thompson wrote popular Victorian novels that were sentimental and moralistic in style, often peopled by religious characters. ^[2] TheNew York Times noted the publication of The Chapel of St. Mary in December 1860, writing that the book was "a readable one." ^[3]

Works

• The Rectory of Moreland: or, My Duty (1859) (first published as Mary Evans)
• The Chapel of St. Mary (1861)
• Hawthorndean, or, Philip Benton's Family: A Story of Every Day Life (1873)

References

1. White, Barbara A. (2013-05-07). American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870: A Reference Guide. Routledge. ISBN   9781136290923.
2. Murphy, Maureen (2000). "Clara M. Thompson". In Benbow-Pfalzgraf, Taryn (ed.). American women writers : a critical reference guide : from colonial times to the present (2nd ed.). Detroit: St. James Press. ISBN   9781558624290. OCLC   42027536.
3. "MISCELLANEOUS". The New York Times. 1860-12-22. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2017-10-11.

External links

• The Chapel of St. Mary on the Internet Archive
• The Rectory of Moreland on the Internet Archive