Mary Stanbery Watts

Mary Watts's first published pieces were three short stories for McClure's Magazine: "The Gate of the Seven Hundred Virgins" (May 1907), "The Great North Road" (August 1907) and "The Voodoo-Woman" (December 1907). Mrs. Watt's first book The Tenants: An Episode of the Eighties was then published by McClure Publishing Company in March 1908. She published another short story for McClure's Magazine in February 1909: "Camilla's Marriage."

In April 1910, Mary Stanbery Watts's most acclaimed novel, Nathan Burke, an historical novel of the Mexican War, was published by Macmillan Company, which would publish a dozen more novels by Mary Watts. Her second novel was The Legacy: The Story of a Woman in May 1911, followed by Van Cleve in September 1913, set in the time of the Spanish-American War. Then came The Rise of Jennie Cushing in October 1914. This book was made into a silent film by the famous French silent-film director Maurice Tourneur. This may have been one of the first novels for which movie rights were sold.

From 1916 to 1924, Mary S. Watts would publish a novel every year except 1921: The Rudder: A Novel With Several Heroes (March 1916); Three Short Plays. (January 1917); The Boardman Family (April 1918); From Father to Son (June 1919); The Noon-Mark (October 1920); The House of Rimmon (February 1922); Luther Nichols (January 1923) and The Fabric of the Loom (October 1924).

Her last four published pieces, written for Harper's Magazine, were short stories: "The Toiling Masses" (December 1922); "Points of View" (September 1923); "Nice Neighbors" (December 1923) and "White Men" (February 1926).

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Biographical details and genealogical information provided by C.A. Brooman, granddaughter of Mrs. Denison.
• Grant Martin Overton: The Women Who Make Our Novels. NEW YORK MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY 1922. First imprint 1918. Chapter 14 “Mary S. Watts”, p. 177-198.

• "The Toiling Masses" (Harper's Magazine)
• "Points of View" (Harper's Magazine)
• "Nice Neighbors" (Harper's Magazine)
• "White Man" (Harper's Magazine)