Record #:

18529

Author(s):

Lawrence, R.C.

Abstract:

Frances Christine Tiernan (nee Fisher) of Salisbury wrote under the pseudonym Christian Reid. She was a prolific writer of short stories, serialized novelettes, and 46 published books during the 19th- and early 20th-century. Her most remembered book is The Land of Sky, which became a descriptive name for western North Carolina. She died of pneumonia and is buried in Salisbury.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 9 Issue 47, Apr 1942, p3, 20

Subject(s):

Tiernan, Frances Christine Fisher (Christian Reid), 1846-1920; Authors, North Carolina--Women