author
Mary Jane Holmes
1825–1907
A hugely popular 19th-century American novelist, she wrote domestic fiction that reached an enormous audience in her own lifetime. Her stories blend family drama, romance, and moral conflict in a way that made her one of the era's best-selling authors.
47 Audiobooks
Marian Grey : or, The heiress of Redstone Hall
by Mary Jane Holmes
Tempest and Sunshine
by Mary Jane Holmes
The Cromptons
by Mary Jane Holmes
Edith Lyle : A novel
by Mary Jane Holmes
Aikenside
by Mary Jane Holmes
Dora Deane; Or, The East India Uncle
by Mary Jane Holmes
Mildred : A novel
by Mary Jane Holmes
Edna Browning; or, the Leighton homestead. A novel
by Mary Jane Holmes
Darkness and Daylight: A Novel
by Mary Jane Holmes
Miss McDonald
by Mary Jane Holmes
Ethelyn's Mistake
by Mary Jane Holmes
Homestead on the Hillside
by Mary Jane Holmes
The English Orphans; Or, A Home in the New World
by Mary Jane Holmes
The Cameron pride; or, purified by suffering : A novel
by Mary Jane Holmes
Hugh Worthington : A novel
by Mary Jane Holmes
Mrs. Hallam's companion; and The Spring Farm, and other tales
by Mary Jane Holmes
Cousin Maude
by Mary Jane Holmes
Millbank; or, Roger Irving's ward. A novel
by Mary Jane Holmes
The Rector of St. Mark's
by Mary Jane Holmes
Doctor Hathern's daughters : A story of Virginia, in four parts
by Mary Jane Holmes
Chateau d'Or, Norah, and Kitty Craig
by Mary Jane Holmes
West Lawn, and The rector of St. Mark's
by Mary Jane Holmes
Queenie Hetherton
by Mary Jane Holmes
Glen's Creek
by Mary Jane Holmes
Family Pride; Or, Purified by Suffering
by Mary Jane Holmes
'Lena Rivers
by Mary Jane Holmes
Rosamond, or, the Youthful Error: A Tale of Riverside; And Other Stories
by Mary Jane Holmes
Forrest House : A novel
by Mary Jane Holmes
Rose Mather: A tale
by Mary Jane Holmes
The abandoned farm, and Connie's mistake
by Mary Jane Holmes
Jessie Graham
by Mary Jane Holmes
Daisy Thornton
by Mary Jane Holmes
Maggie Lee! : Bad spelling, Diamonds, The answered prayer
by Mary Jane Holmes
The Tracy diamonds
by Mary Jane Holmes
Christmas stories
by Mary Jane Holmes
Meadow Brook
by Mary Jane Holmes
Tracy Park: A Novel
by Mary Jane Holmes
Gretchen: A Novel
by Mary Jane Holmes
Bad Hugh
by Mary Jane Holmes
Bessie's Fortune: A Novel
by Mary Jane Holmes
Maggie Miller: The Story of Old Hagar's Secret
by Mary Jane Holmes
Rena's experiment
by Mary Jane Holmes
Madeline
by Mary Jane Holmes
Lucy Harding : a romance of Russia
by Mary Jane Holmes
The Merivale banks
by Mary Jane Holmes
Paul Ralston : A novel
by Mary Jane Holmes
Meadow Brook
by Mary Jane Holmes
About the author
Born Mary Jane Hawes in Brookfield, Massachusetts, in 1825, she later married Daniel Holmes and became known as Mary Jane Holmes. She was a prolific American writer who published dozens of novels along with shorter fiction, building a very large readership in the mid-to-late 1800s.
Her first novel, Tempest and Sunshine, was especially successful, and her lifetime sales reportedly reached into the millions. Contemporary readers were drawn to her lively plots, emotional turns, and strong focus on home, love, hardship, and everyday moral choices.
Although she is less widely known now than some of her peers, Holmes was one of the most commercially successful women writers of her time. She died in Brockport, New York, in 1907, leaving behind a body of work that captures the tastes and reading habits of a broad 19th-century American audience.