Brian Masters

MC had a number of governesses while living at Fern Dell. Perhaps because she had not yet been to school, only rarely met with other children, and worshipped her father, Minnie proved a difficult...

The identity of MC 's biological mother is uncertain: there are no known private or public records (including birth certificates or census reports) that confirm her bloodline. Biographers Brian Masters and Teresa Ransom argue that...

MC took her own work extremely seriously, seeing herself as the Shakespeare of her age and genre. Her status as an unprecedented best-seller brought both celebration and derision, just as her anti-suffrage views, which...

Barabbas sold extremely well. It was translated into Farsi, Greek, Hindi, and Russian, among other languages. Critics were, however, unrelenting: some thought MC heretical for supposing herself worthy of rewriting the gospel, while others just...