Mary A. (Mary Abigail) Roe

Mary Abigail Roe was an American author active in the late 19th century. Surviving records connect her with the novel A Long Search (published in 1885) and with E. P. Roe; Reminiscences of His Life, a biographical work about the popular novelist and preacher Edward Payson Roe.

Yale's archival descriptions list her as Mary A. Roe, approximately 1840-, and note that the Roe family papers include her diaries, other writings, reviews of two of her novels, scrapbooks, clippings, and an obituary. Those details suggest a writer whose life and work remained closely tied to a literary and family circle, even if many biographical facts are now hard to confirm.

She does not appear to have a widely documented modern profile, which gives her books a certain archival charm: they offer a glimpse of 19th-century fiction and literary remembrance from a voice that has largely slipped out of the spotlight.