Maria Louise Pool

Maria Louise Pool (born Aug. 20, 1841, Rockland, Mass., U.S.—died May 19, 1898, Rockland) was an American writer whose sketches were well received in the period when the so-called local colour movement in American literature was just beginning. Pool attended public schools in her hometown of Rockland and for a time was herself a schoolteacher. By the age of 20 she had begun to publish stories in various magazines. She also wrote for a Philadelphia...