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{{Short description|American author and temperance reformer (1829–1918)}}
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[[File:MARY A. CORNELIUS.jpg|thumb|Portrait from ''[[A Woman of the Century]]'']]▼
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'''Mary Ann Mann Cornelius''' ({{nee}}, '''Mann'''; [[pen name]], '''Mrs. Mary A. Cornelius'''; September 25, 1829 – April 18, 1918) was an American writer of novels and [[occult]] stories. She was also a [[Temperance movement in the United States|temperance reformer]], serving as president of the [[Woman's Christian Temperance Union]] (W.C.T.U.) of [[Arkansas]].<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893">{{cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Frances Elizabeth |author1-link=Frances Willard |last2=Livermore |first2=Mary Ashton Rice |author2-link=Mary Livermore |title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life |year=1893 |publisher=[[Charles Wells Moulton]] |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Mary_A._Cornelius |pages=207-08 |chapter=CORNELIUS, Mrs. Mary A. }} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>▼
| alt = B&W oval portrait photo of a dark-haired woman wearing a dark shawl
| birth_name = Mary Ann Mann
| birth_date = September 25, 1829
| birth_place = [[Pontiac, Michigan]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1918|4|18|1829|9|25}}
| death_place = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], U.S.
| resting_place = [[Oakland-Fraternal Cemetery]]
| occupation = {{hlist|writer|sociall reformer}}
| genre = novels, occult
| subject = {{hlist|temperance|tolerance|God's love for the world}}
| movement = [[Temperance movement in the United States|temperance]]
| notable_works = ''Little Wolf''
| spouse = {{marriage|Samuel Cornelius|1850|1886|end=died}}
}}
▲'''Mary Ann Mann Cornelius''' ({{nee}}, '''Mann'''; [[pen name]], '''Mrs. Mary A. Cornelius'''; September 25, 1829 – April 18, 1918) was an American
==Early life and education==
Mary Ann Mann was born in [[Pontiac, Michigan]], on September 25, 1829.<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" /><ref name="TheBanner1912">{{cite magazine |title=Woman's Department |magazine=The Banner of Gold |date=March 1912 |volume=XXV |issue=2 |pages=
She was educated at the Pontiac Academy.<ref name="Womans1914" /> Her first school composition, written when she was nine years of age, was a hit in the rural community where she lived
==Career==
Her husband encouraged her to write short articles for the press on religious and philanthropic subjects
Although a semi-invalid for many years, she
She assisted her husband when he was engaged in editorial work.
By 1893,<ref name="WillardLivermore-1893" /> Cornelius removed from [[Arkansas]]
[[File:Mary A. Cornelius (The Banner of Gold, 1912).png|thumb|Mary A. Cornelius (''The Banner of Gold'', 1912)]]
==Personal life and death==
In 1850, she married Rev.
Cornelius suffered a severe injury from a fall in October 1911, which confined her to her room for many weeks. During
Mary A. Cornelius died on April 18, 1918, in Chicago. Burial was at [[Oakland-Fraternal Cemetery|Oakland cemetery]] in
==Selected works==
[[File:The white flame (an occult story) (IA whiteflameanoccu00corn).pdf|thumb|''The white flame'' (an occult story)]]
===Books as Mary A. Cornelius===
* ''The White Flame'', 1900 [https://archive.org/details/whiteflameanoccu00corn (text)]
* ''Why? Or, A Kansas Girl's Query'', 1903 [https://books.google.com/books?id=qnk4AQAAMAAJ (text)]
===Books as Mrs. M. A. Cornelius===
* ''Little Wolf: A Tale of the Western Frontier'', 1872 [https://archive.org/details/littlewolftaleof00corniala (text)]
* ''Uncle Nathan's Farm: A Novel'', 1898<ref name="ThePublishers1898">{{cite book |title=The Publishers Weekly |date=1898 |publisher=F. Leypoldt |page=22 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yvq7AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PA22 |access-date=9 September 2023 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
===Poems===
* "Sweet Marie"
* "The Watchword", 1911
==References==
{{reflist|30em}}
==External links==
* {{wikisource-inline|Woman of the Century/Isadore Gilbert Jeffery}}
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