Ruth McEnery Stuart
American Storywriter
1856 – 1919 A.D.

Ruth McEnery Stuart, an American story-writer, born in Louisiana, educated at New Orleans.

In 1879 she married Alfred O. Stuart, a cotton planter, and in later life, she made her home in New York City.

Mrs. Stuart’s books have been deservedly popular, and her richly humorous negro sketches have a leading place among their kind.

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Reference: Famous Women; An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women By Joseph Adelman. Copyright, 1926 by Ellis M. Lonow Company.