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Mary Jane Holmes

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born

April 05, 1825 in Brookfield Massachusetts, The United States

died

January 01, 1907

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Romance, Literature & Fiction

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Mary Jane Holmes (a.k.a. Mary J. Holmes) was a bestselling and prolific American author who wrote 39 popular novels, as well as short stories. Her first novel sold 250,000 copies; and she had total sales of 2 million books in her lifetime, second only to Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Portraying domestic life in small town and rural settings, she examined gender relationships, as well as those of class and race. She also dealt with slavery and the American Civil War, with a strong sense of moral justice. Her popular work was excluded from most 19th-century literary histories, but she has received recognition and reappraisal since the late 20th century.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 145 ratings · 27 reviews · 55 distinct works

	The English Orphans 3.78 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1855 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The homestead on the Hillside: and other tales 3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1855 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Tempest and Sunshine 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1854 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Lena Rivers 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1856 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Cousin Maude 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1860 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Tracy Park 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Marian Grey Or, the Heiress of Redstone Hall 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1863 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ethelyn's Mistake 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1869 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Millbank; Or Roger Irving's Ward 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1871 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Bessie's Fortune (1885) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006 — 13 editions	My rating:

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