Hoosier Authors Book Club
April 17 @ 7:00 pm
We are excited to announce the first Hoosier Authors Book Club of 2025. To begin the year, we will read Mary Hannah Krout’s “Hawaii and a Revolution.”
The personal experiences of a correspondent in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) during the crisis of 1893. A native of Crawfordsville and close friend to Susan Wallace, Mary Hannah Krout began her speaking career addressing a Lafayette audience on women’s suffrage. After teaching for over a decade, she began writing for newspapers, first with the Crawfordsville Journal in 1879, becoming the associate editor in 1881. She became editor of the Terre Haute Express in 1882.
In 1888, she moved to Chicago after obtaining a position as society reporter on the Chicago Inter-Ocean. For 10 years, Krout was on the staff of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, serving as its staff correspondent in Hawaii during the revolution in 1893 and furnishing special data for the United States Department of State. She was also staff correspondent in London from 1895 to 1898, then went to China for a syndicate of representative newspapers specially to investigate the commercial relations of China and the United States. She wrote about each of these experiences. In 1907, Krout visited Australia for a second time, lecturing on American political and economic conditions and writing a series of articles for the Sydney and Auckland press on American topics.
Later she engaged in miscellaneous literary work, and lectured on literary and other topics. She also assisted Susan Wallace with the completion of Lew Wallace’s Autobiography following his death in 1905. It was published in 1906, a year before Mrs. Wallace died.
Hawaii and a Revolution by Mary Hannah Krout. To order: https://www.amazon.com/Hawaii-Revolution-Experiences… $17.99 paperback https://bookshop.org/…/hawaii-and-a…/17710342… $24.95 paperback