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Minnie Mary Lee
1826–1903
A 19th-century American novelist and poet, she wrote popular sentimental and Catholic fiction under the pen name Minnie Mary Lee. Her life spanned New Hampshire, Kentucky, and Minnesota, and her books often blended domestic storytelling with religious conviction.
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Hubert's Wife
by Minnie Mary Lee
About the author
Born Julia Amanda Adams Sargent on April 13, 1826, in New London, New Hampshire, she became widely known by the pen name Minnie Mary Lee and also published as Mrs. Julia A. A. Wood. She studied in New Hampshire and Boston, married lawyer William Henry Wood in 1849, and later made her home in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota.
She wrote poems, stories, sketches, and novels, building a reputation as a 19th-century sentimental author. After converting to Roman Catholicism, she wrote several novels that reflected that faith, including The Brown House at Duffield, Strayed from the Fold, and From Error to Truth.
Beyond her books, she also worked in journalism and public service. Sources from her lifetime say she served as postmaster of Sauk Rapids for four years and helped conduct the Sauk Rapids Free Press with her son, while also contributing fiction to Catholic periodicals published in England. She died on March 9, 1903.