Mary C. F. Hall-Wood — Sea-Leaves
Mary C. F. Hall-Wood made a literary life out of Santa Barbara when the city was still building its public voice. Widowed twice and forced to earn her living, she learned newspaper production, helped establish the Index, and became editor of the Independent. Under the name Camilla K. von K., she published Sea-Leaves in 1887: a restless, locally rooted collection filled with Pacific weather, Santa Ynez roads, California poppies, the Old Mission, civic celebrations, intimate grief, wit, and experiment. This edition restores the complete book from its Santa Barbara printing and places Hall-Wood where she belongs—as a working editor and one of the region’s earliest sustained poets.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Bibliography
Hall-Wood, Mary C. F. Santa Barbara as It Is: Topography, Climate, Resources, and Objects of Interest. Independent Publishing Company, 1884.
———, writing as Camilla K. von K. Sea-Leaves. Independent Print, 1887.
———. “A Cigarette Vagary.” The Humbler Poets, edited by Slason Thompson, A. C. McClurg, 1899, p. 421.