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Lettie Artley Irons
A little-known 19th-century writer, she published poems, essays, and frontier fiction during a brief life that ended in 1875. Her surviving work offers a glimpse of the popular magazine and dime-novel world of her day.
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Nat, The Trapper and Indian-Fighter
by Lettie Artley Irons
About the author
Lettie Artley Irons was a 19th-century American writer remembered for contributing poems and essays to the Saturday Journal in the early 1870s. A notice reprinted by Northern Illinois University says she was an invalid and wrote often on sorrowful themes, while also publishing the serial Mad Nathan under a pen name.
She is also associated with the pseudonym Paul J. Prescott, under which Nat, The Trapper and Indian-Fighter was published. Project Gutenberg and dime-novel reference sources connect her name with that novel, showing her place in the fast-moving popular fiction market of the period.
Very little biographical information seems to survive, but reference sources indicate that she died in 1875. Because the record is so sparse, her work stands out as the clearest way to encounter her voice today.