About the Author
Mary Johnston (1870-1936) was an American novelist. She wrote more than twenty novels, primarily historical romances concerning such topics as the Civil War (The Long Roll and Cease Firing) and women’s social and political betterment (Hagar). Centered on colonial Virginia, her first novel, Prisoners of Hope (1898), was very successful, and To Have and to Hold became the bestselling novel of 1900.
