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b. 1857
A mostly elusive early-20th-century poet, remembered today for a single witty book that turns married life into playful verse. Her surviving work borrows the mood of the Rubáiyát tradition and gives it a light, comic domestic twist.
Mary Wallace Bundy Little was an American poet and author born in 1857. The main work that can be readily confirmed today is The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband, published in 1908.
That book is a humorous poem in the spirit of the famous Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, but aimed at the small dramas of home and marriage. Its lasting appeal comes from that mix of literary parody and everyday feeling.
Very little firmly sourced biographical information about her seems to survive in widely available references, so her life remains largely in the background while the book itself has endured through library catalogs and public-domain editions.