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Minnie Mary Lee
1826–1903
Known to 19th-century readers for heartfelt fiction and moral drama, this American writer published poems, stories, sketches, and novels under the pen name Minnie Mary Lee. Her books often blend domestic feeling with themes of faith, conscience, and personal change.
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Hubert's Wife A Story for You
by Minnie Mary Lee
About the author
Writing as Minnie Mary Lee, Julia Amanda Sargent Wood was an American author born in New London, New Hampshire, in 1825. She was educated in New Hampshire and Boston, began writing young, and later became known for sentimental fiction as well as poems, stories, and sketches.
She married Benjamin Franklin Wood in 1849 and published both under her pen name and as Mrs. Julia A. A. Wood. Her work reached a wide 19th-century audience, and several of her novels centered on family life, moral conflict, and religious feeling, including stories connected with Roman Catholic conversion and redemption.
Today, Minnie Mary Lee is remembered as a prolific popular writer of her era whose books capture the tone of American domestic fiction in the 1800s. She died in 1903, leaving behind a body of work that reflects both the emotional style and the spiritual concerns of her time.