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LEGACY PROFILE: Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)
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April 1, 2008
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A few days after her death, an obituary in the Nation recorded the irony of Mary Jane Holmes's life and work:
It is an eternal paradox of our world of letters that the books which enjoy the largest sale are barely recognized as existing by the guardians of literary tradition. Mrs. Mary Jane Holmes, who died Sunday at Brockport, N.Y., wrote thirty-nine novels with aggregate sales, it is said, of more than two million copies, and yet she had not even a paragraph devoted to her life and works in the histories of American Literature. ("The Week")
An irony indeed, especially considering that Holmes, who engaged in the class, gender, and race struggles that encompassed nineteenth-century social ...
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