Sidney McCall

Mary McNeil Fenollosa (1865-1954), [www.es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Fenollosa] publishing primarily under the pseudonym Sidney McCall, was a popular novelist and poet in the early twentieth century. She grew up in Mobile, Alabama and several of her novels are set in Alabama. Today, she is remembered mostly as the wife of Ernest Fenollosa, [www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Fenollosa] a scholar of Asian culture and an art collector. [www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-2346] Her well-constructed fiction deserves attention because it stands out from the mostly sentimental, plot-driven work of her contemporaries and because …