Jane W. Bruner | |
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Born | 1845
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Died | July 20, 1909
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Jane Woodworth Bruner (1845 – July 20, 1909) was an American author, painter, musician, and anti-Catholic activist.
Bruner was a native of Chester County, Pennsylvania. [1] She was the daughter of California mining magnate Joseph "Ophir" Woodworth. [2] She married and later divorced Dr. William H. Bruner. [3]
Bruner was a frequent contributor to Overland Monthly. She set Edgar Allan Poe's poem " Annabel Lee" to music, publishing the sheet music in 1870. [4] She wrote a novel set in Grass Valley, California, Free Prisoners: A Story of California (1877). [5]
Her play A Mad World (1883) premiered at Baldwin's Theatre in San Francisco. [6] She befriended Mark Twain when he had lived in California and wrote to Twain asking him to attend the play in New Haven, Connecticut. [7]
Bruner was an anti-Catholic lecturer and published an anti-Catholic tract, The Question of Romanism (1908). [8] [9]
Bruner died on 20 July 1909 in Long Beach, California. [10]
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