Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune (1830-1922)
Courtesy, Passaic County Historical Society

Known by her pen name Marion Harland, Terhune began publishing household advice and cookbooks in 1872, after she had struggled as a young wife, ignorant of housekeeping skills. Some of her later books were written in collaboration with her daughter Christine Terhune Herrick. Born and raised in Virginia, she married a New Jersey clergyman and after three years in Richmond, Virginia, moved to Newark in 1859. The family's summer home, Sunnybank, in Pompton was the setting of numerous books about collies by Terhune's son, Albert Payson Terhune.