The Dead Letter

Author： Seeley Regester

Publisher： Open Road Integrated Media‎

Publication year： 2015

E-ISBN: 9781480442641

Subject： I1 World Literature

Language： ENG

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Seeley Regester (1831–1885) was the pseudonym of Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, one of the most popular and prolific authors of mid-nineteenth-century America. She published more than one hundred novels in a wide variety of genres, including romance, Westerns, temperance novels, and children’s literature. She is best remembered for The Dead Letter (1867), the first full-length work of crime fiction by an American author. Her abolitionist dime novel, Maum Guinea, and Her Plantation “Children” (1861), was praised by Abraham Lincoln.

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