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W. M. L. Jay
1833–1909
A 19th-century American novelist and travel writer, she published under the pen name W. M. L. Jay and wrote stories shaped by moral reflection, domestic life, and religious feeling. Her best-known books include Shiloh and the travel narrative My Winter in Cuba.
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Holden with the Cords
by W. M. L. Jay
About the author
Julia Louisa Matilda Woodruff, who wrote as W. M. L. Jay, was an American author born in Newtown, Connecticut, and she lived from 1833 to 1909. Reference sources identify W. M. L. Jay as her pseudonym and list her as a novelist and writer of religious and domestic fiction.
Her books include Shiloh, Holden with the Cords, The Daisy-Seekers, The King's Garden, and My Winter in Cuba. Together, these works suggest a writer interested in both inward spiritual life and the details of everyday experience, with one foot in fiction and the other in reflective travel writing.
Some catalog and biographical records also preserve her full name as Julia Louisa Matilda Woodruff, and in some cases note related forms of her name. A reliable portrait image was not clearly available from the sources reviewed, so no profile image is included here.