News 88.7 in partnership with Humanities Texas launches Texas Originals — a new weekly radio segment profiling individuals whose lives and achievements have had a profound influence upon Texas history and culture.
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Writer Mary Austin Holley
MARY AUSTIN HOLLEY October 30, 1784–August 2, 1846 Writer Mary Austin Holley introduced English-speaking readers of the 1830s and ‘40s to Texas, which she called a land of “surpassing beauty ... a splendid country.”A Connecticut native, Holley lived in Boston and Lexington, Kentucky, until the death of her husband in 1827.She wrote to her cousin Stephen F. Austin, inquiring about the colony he had founded in far-off Texas. Stephen replied enthusiastically, even promising her a tract of... Read More