This is a transcription of the H. Maria (George) Colby biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 77.
H. Maria (George) Colby
MRS. H. MARIA GEORGE COLBY was born in Warner, N. H., October 1, 1844. She is the daughter of Gilman C. and Nancy (Badger) George, and is of English descent on both sides of the family the Georges, in fact, have a coat of arms that dates back to the ancient days of chivalry. Mrs. Colby is a social leader and an authoress. She early developed strong literary tastes, and while in her teens wrote a number of novelettes that were published by New York and Philadelphia houses. Later she paid more attention to the magazines and newspapers, and she became an acknowledged authority upon domestic topics. Circumstances have rendered it impossible for her to give her whole time to literary work, but her articles have appeared in the Housewife, the Housekeeper, the Housekeeper’s Weekly, the Christian at Work, Demorest’s Monthly Magazine, Arthur’s Home Youth’s Companion, the Congregationalist, the Portland Transcript, Ladies’ World, Good Cheer, the Philadelphia Press, the Chicago Ledger, the Golden Rule, Good Housekeeping, and St. Nicholas. She was for five years the fashion editor of the Household. She has made use of various pen names, but is best known to editors and the public by her maiden name, H. Maria George. A stanch advocate of temperance, and equal rights for both sexes, she furthers these as well as every other good work by her pen. In December, 1880, Miss George was united in marriage to Frederick Myron Colby, the well known literateur. Their pleasant home is in Warner.