Volume I - BiographyRowena Granice Steele (1824-1901)-actress, author, newspaper publisher, suffragist, lecturer on social issues-began her career on stage at Barnum's American Museum in New York and performed with companies around the U.S. and in Gold Rush California and the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). In 1859 she became the West Coast's first female novelist and over the next 35 years produced more than sixty short stories and four novels. From 1862 to 1890 Rowena and her husband ...

Description: In her forty-year career Rowena Granice Steele, California pioneer, actress, author, newspaper publisher, wrote, by her own estimation, sixty short stories and four novels. Volume I is the story of her life, Volume II is a collection of her short stories and novels written from 1857 to 1873, and here, in Volume III, is the remainder of her life's work published from 1874 to 1893.