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Miriam Coles Harris (born July 7, 1834 in Dosoris, Long Island, died January 23, 1925 in Pau, France) was an American novelist. She wrote several novels, a book of children's stories and two devotional books. She shunned publicity and wrote her first book anonymously, causing the opposite of the desired effect in that several impostors claimed to be the author, resulting in a literary furore, and more attention than the real author ever foresaw.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Brooklyn Eagle )〕 ==Life and works== Miriam Coles was born into a Long Island family going back to the 17th Century. She was descended from Robert Coles who immigrated to America with John Winthrop in 1630.〔D.J. Scannell-O'Neill (1907) ''Distinguished Converts to Rome in America''〕 She was educated at St. Mary's Hall-Doane Academy (now Doane Academy) in Burlington, New Jersey, and Mme. Canda's Girls' School in New York City.〔''Who's who in New York'' (1907)〕 On April 20, 1864,〔''The National cyclopaedia of American biography'' (1901)〕 she married Sidney Smith Harris (1832–1892) of New York, a lawyer, with whom she had two children, a son, Sidney 〔Julius Chambers (ca. 1912) ''The Book of New York; forty years' recollections of the American metropolis'': "Sidney Harris is as prominent and popular in society as in clubdom. In politics he has figured for the last twenty years. At the bar and in public office, in his quiet and effective way, he has won the respect of the judiciary, of his professional brethren, and of the public. Born in New York City in 1866, the son of Sidney Smith Harris and Miriam Coles Harris, received his preliminary education at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. Later, at Columbia University, in addition to pursuing his studies with average zeal, he distinguished himself in athletic competitions. Mr. Harris received the degree of B.A. from Columbia University and in 1889 he was graduated also from the Law School of the University with the degree of LL.B."〕 and a daughter, Natalie.〔〔"Southampton Notes" ''Brooklyn Eagle'' (Oct 31, 1897)〕 After the death of her husband in 1892, she spent most of her time in Europe, dying in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France in 1925. A devout Episcopalian, who late in life, some sources suggest, converted to Roman Catholicism,〔John William Leonard (1914) ''Woman's Who's Who of America''〕〔''Woman's Who's Who of America'' (1914) states that she was "Roman Catholic" and "against woman's suffrage", ''Distinguished Converts to Rome in America'' (1907), while listing her son Sydney Harris, does not list his mother. ''American Ecclesiastical Review'', Volume 19 (1898) published by Catholic University of America writes, "CORNER OF SPAIN Miriam Coles Harris: The author is a devout Protestant but a warm admirer of Spanish piety and its obvious results. No Catholic could more felicitously praise the Spanish clergy and their devotion."〕 But, ''New Catholic World'', Volume 86 (1908), in a review of ''Tents of Wickedness'' wrote, "The keen appreciation, the deep sympathy, shown in the telling of that story bespeak a personal note, something perhaps of what the author herself has experienced in her way to the Catholic Church." In ''Catholic world'', Volume 68 (1899) it states, "we have received the following notice of an author, Mrs. Miriam Coles Harris, who entered the one true church about two years ago ... Unlike most American authors, Mrs. Harris has not been a contributor to magazines, having done no writing outside of her novels with the exception of two devotional books written while she was a member of the Anglican Church. Her most recent publication, ''A Corner of Spain'', is therefore somewhat of a departure ... When Mrs. Harris made the visit to Spain, she was not a Catholic." However that information is inaccurate, she had written many magazine articles. She published a number of children's stories with a religious theme, prior to her first novel. These included ''Philip and Arthur'' (1859), ''Ash Wednesday in the Nursery'' (1859) and ''Saturday Afternoon'' (1859).〔''The American Literary Yearbook'' (1919) Paul Traub, Henning, Minnesota〕 Coles-Harris also wrote many magazine articles. These include "A Playwrights Novitiate" in the ''Atlantic Monthly'' (1894), on writing for the stage, 〔From "A Playwright's Novitiate" (October 1894) ''The Atlantic Monthly'', "The church seems always to have had a quarrel with the drama, ever since it passed from a religious ceremony into an art. Now, someone says, it is passing rapidly from an art into an amusement. And it is true that people do not go to the theatre to hear a sermon preached to them; but preach it as Sardou preached it in ''Fedora'', and they will listen."〕 and another in ''Lippincott's Magazine'' (1893), criticizing the undue exaltation of what she called "Seventh Commandment novels".〔"Lippincott's Magazine", ''Brooklyn Eagle'' (Jan. 24, 1893)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miriam Coles Harris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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