Payne Erskine

Payne Erskine (1854-1924), born Emma Payne in Racine, Wisconsin, was an American novelist and the daughter of the artist Alfred Payne. She married Charles Edwin Erskine in 1873 and raised six children, and in later life settled at Tryon, North Carolina, where she died. She published some ten works of fiction around the turn of the twentieth century, many of them set in the North Carolina mountains. Her works include The Eye of Dread and The Mountain Girl.