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Mary Murdoch Mason
Best known for the 19th-century novel Mae Madden, this little-documented writer left behind fiction that still circulates through digital libraries and public-domain collections. Her work offers a glimpse of popular literary tastes in the 1870s, with romance and drama at the center.
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Mae Madden
by Mary Murdoch Mason
About the author
Mary Murdoch Mason was an American author active in the 1870s. She is best known for Mae Madden, a novel published by Jansen, McClurg & Co. in Chicago in 1875, with an introductory poem by Joaquin Miller.
Reliable biographical details about her life are scarce in major reference sources available online. Another work connected to her is The Fourteen Miles Round, credited to Alfred Bishop Mason and Mary Murdoch Mason, which suggests she also collaborated on writing beyond fiction.
Although not much is confirmed about her personal history, her books have survived through archives, library catalogs, and Project Gutenberg, allowing modern readers to encounter a writer whose work remained part of the long afterlife of 19th-century popular literature.