Introduction

Biography

McKeever was en­gaged in edu­ca­tion­al work in Phi­la­del­phia for ma­ny years, and was as­so­ci­at­ed with St. An­drew’s Epis­co­pal Church there.

Works

Her hymns, writ­ten in some in­stanc­es for use at St. An­drew’s, were pub­lished as Twi­light Mus­ings, and Oth­er Po­ems (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: 1857). She is said to have writ­ten 40 vol­umes of Sun­day school books ov­er a 13 year pe­ri­od.

Her oth­er works in­clude:

• Twilight Mus­ings, and Oth­er Po­ems (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: 1857)
• Jessie Mor­ris­on, 1859
• Sunshine; or, Kate Vin­ton, 1859
• Edith’s Min­is­try (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Lind­say & Bla­kis­ton, 1860)
• Woodcliff, 1865
• The Di­a­mond Cross; or, The Sto­ry of Flo­rence Clif­ton, 1866
• May Cas­tle­ton’s Mis­sion, 1866?
• Rose De­la­ney’s Sec­ret; or, Cha­ri­ty En­vi­eth Not, 1866?
• Eleanor’s Three Birth­days, 1867
• Mary Les­lie’s Tri­als, 1867
• Lucy For­res­ter’s Tri­umph, 1867
• Children with the Po­ets, 1868
• Silver Threads, 1868
• Westbrook Par­son­age, 1869
• Maude and Mi­ri­am; or, The Fair Cru­sad­er (Clax­ton, Rem­sen & Haf­fel­fin­ger, 1871)
• Bertha’s Co­ro­net, 1881
• Nothing but Leaves, 1881
• Twice Crowned: a Sto­ry of the Days of Queen Ma­ry