Sidney McCall

Sidney McCall
Sidney McCall, from a 1907 publication.
Born	Mary McNeill Wilcox County, Alabama, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American

Sidney McCall (8 March 1865 – 11 January 1954), born Mary McNeill, later Mary McNeil Fenollosa, was an American novelist and poet. Several of her novels became films.

Early life[]

McCall was born Mary McNeill (later dropping one of the l's) in Wilcox County, Alabama, to William Stoddard McNeill, a Confederate Army lieutenant from Mobile, Alabama, and Laura Sibley. McCall was the oldest of five children.

Films[]

The Breath of the Gods is based on her novel of the same name. The Eternal Mother, a lost 1917 silent film, is based on her Red Horse Hill. The Dragon Painter (1919) is based on her novel The Dragon Painter.^[1]

The cover of Sidney McCall's novel, The Breath of the Gods (1905).

Selected works[]

• Out of the Nest: A Flight of Verses (1899) poetry, under her own name
• Truth Dexter (1901) novel, as Sidney McCall
• Hiroshige, the Artist of Mist, Snow and Rain (1901) essay, under her own name
• The breath of the gods : a Japanese romance of to-day (1905), as Sidney McCall
• The Dragon Painter (1906) under her own name
• Red Horse Hill (1909) novel, as Sidney McCall
• Foreword to Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art: An Outline History of East Asiatic Design (1912) by Ernest Fenollosa^*
• Blossoms from a Japanese Garden: A Book of Child-Verses , (1913) poetry, under her own name
• The Strange Woman (1914) novel, as Sidney McCall
• Ariadne of Allan Water (1914) novel, as Sidney McCall
• The Stirrup Latch (1915) novel, as Sidney McCall
• Sunshine Beggars (1918) novel, as Sidney McCall
• Christopher Laird (1919) novel, as Sidney McCall

Mary Fenollosa was also responsible for the posthumous completion, checking and publication of her late husband's magnum opus.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

Further reading[]

• Mary McNeil Fenollosa, Encyclopaedia of Alabama
• Delaney, Caldwell. "Mary McNeil Fenollosa, An Alabama Woman of Letters." Alabama Review 16.3 (1965): 163–173.