Constance Cary Harrison, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetConstance Cary Harrison
American writer
Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1843
Place of Birth: Port Gibson, Mississippi, United States
Date of Death: 21-Nov-1920
Profession: socialite
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Constance Cary Harrison
- Constance Cary Harrison (pen name, Refugitta; April 25, 1843 – November 21, 1920), also referred as Mrs.
- Burton Harrison, was an American author of plays and novels.
- She and two of her cousins were known as the "Cary Invincibles"; the three sewed the first examples of the Confederate Battle Flag. Harrison belonged to an old Virginia family related to the Fairfaxes and Jeffersons.
- Her home was destroyed during the American Civil War and consequently she witnessed much of the horrors of that struggle.
- After its close, she accompanied her mother to Europe and while in France.
- Upon her return to the United States, She married Burton Harrison, a lawyer and American democratic politician, who was at one time the Secretary of President Jefferson Davis.
- They moved to New York in 1876, and there she began her literary life.
- Harrison's first magazine article was A Little Centennial Lady, which attracted much attention, and thereafter, she wrote a great deal.Few literary women in New York were better known at the time, her home a social and literary center.
- She produced several plays, chiefly adaptations from the French.
- The work that probably gained her more reputation abroad was The Anglomaniacs, which appeared in The Century without her name.
- It ranked her at once among the best of the novelists.
- Some of her other works included, Golden Rod, The Story of Helen Troy, Woman's Handiwork in Modern Houses, Old-Fashioned Fairy Book, Bric-a-Brac Stories, Flower de Hundred, Miy Lord Fairfax of Greenway Court, The Homes and Haunts of Washington, The Russian Honeymoon, Sweet Bells Out of Tune, A Daughter of the South and Other Tales, Bar Harbor Days, and An edelweiss of the Sierras, Golden-rod, and other tales.
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