Mary Cruger

Mary Cruger (May 9, 1834 – November 15, 1908 ) was an American novelist. Cruger's novels examine social problems through a Christian viewpoint. After the deaths of her parents, she built a house near Montrose, New York called "Wood Rest".

Cruger's first novel, Hyperaesthesia (1886), was about several people at a New York resort suffering from the title malady, a condition of abnormal sensitivity. Cruger's novel examines female hysteria in a way that presages the work of later historians.

Cruger also wrote the novel The Vanderheyde Manor House (1887) and translated Labor, the Divine Command (1890) by Leo Tolstoy.

At the time of her death, she was living in the rectory of the church of her brother, Reverend Gouverneur Cruger, the Church of the Divine Love, in Sunset, near Montrose.