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active 19th century Frances Lee
Little is firmly known about this 19th-century writer, but surviving records show her work appearing in late-Victorian story collections. Her known contribution, "How Lily Got the Cat," suggests a warm, gentle style well suited to younger readers and domestic fiction.
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An Arrow in a Sunbeam, and Other Tales
by Sarah Orne Jewett, active 19th century Frances Lee, C. S. Sleight
About the author
Frances Lee is an obscure 19th-century author whose surviving bibliographic record is very small. Modern catalog listings, including Project Gutenberg, identify her simply as "active 19th century" rather than giving clear birth, death, or family details.
What can be confirmed is that she was credited as one of the authors of An Arrow in a Sunbeam, and Other Tales, a late-19th-century collection that also includes work by Sarah Orne Jewett and C. S. Sleight. In that volume, Frances Lee is credited with the story How Lily Got the Cat, a piece described in later editions as a charming tale about a girl and her cat.
Because so little biographical information survives, Frances Lee is best understood through the small body of work still attached to her name. She seems to belong to the many lesser-known writers of the period whose stories remained in circulation even when the details of their lives did not.