Mary Louise Booth ( April 19, 1831 – March 5, 1889) translator, writer, editor born in Millville, the present Yaphank, New York to William Chatfield Booth and Nancy Monswell. She was editor of Harper's Bazaar from its beginning till her death. She was a prolific translator in to English the works of French authors. Before the close of the Civil War, she translated About's King of the Mountains; Cousin's Secret History of the French Court, (1859); Pascal's Lettres Provinciales ( Provincial Letters); Gasparin's Uprising of a Great People, (1861), America Before Europe, (1861); Laboulaye's Paris in America, (1865); Cochin's Results of Emancipation, (1862), and Results of Slavery, (1862). She wrote History of New York, (1861, revised 1880).
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