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Mabel Anne McKee

b. 1886

Remembered for the 1913 story The Heart of the Rose, this early 20th-century writer is an elusive figure whose work has outlasted most of the biographical record.

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The Heart of the Rose

The Heart of the Rose

by Mabel Anne McKee

About the author

Mabel Anne McKee was an American writer active in the early 1900s. Her best-known surviving work is The Heart of the Rose, published by Fleming H. Revell Company in 1913 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg.

Reliable biographical details about her are scarce. Library and catalog records consistently identify her as Mabel Anne McKee, and some reference data associates her with a birth year in the 1880s, but the exact year is not easy to confirm from widely available primary sources.

That relative obscurity makes her work especially interesting today: she is one of those authors known mainly through the books that remain in circulation rather than through a well-documented public life.