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Seeley Regester

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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.

Seeley Regester Books

The Dead Letter book cover

The Dead Letter

Seeley Regester
The Dead Letter book cover

The Dead Letter

Seeley Regester
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