Introduction

Biography

In 1835, Ma­ry mar­ried Charles Elu­the­ros Da­na of New York. In the sum­mer of 1839, they moved to Bloom­ing­ton (now Mus­ca­tine), Iowa. Her hus­band and young son died the next year, and she re­turned to South Ca­ro­li­na.

In 1851, she mar­ried min­is­ter Ro­bert Doyne Shind­ler, a pro­fess­or at Shel­by Col­lege, Ken­tuc­ky, and lat­er Texas. Ma­ry was orig­in­al­ly a Pres­by­ter­ian, but lat­er at­tend­ed the Uni­ta­ri­an, then the Pro­test­ant Epis­co­pal, church.

Works

• The South­ern Harp, 1840
• The North­ern Harp, 1841
• The Part­ed Fa­mi­ly, and Oth­er Po­ems
• The West­ern Harp
• The Tem­per­ance Lyre
• Charles Mor­ton, or the Young Pa­tri­ot, 1843
• The Young Sail­or
• Letters to Re­la­tives and Friends, 1845
• Forecastle Tom; or, The Lands­man Turned Sail­or (New York: Harp­er & Bro­thers, 1846)