Mary Jane Holmes (April 5, 1825 – October 6, 1907) [1] was an American author who published 39 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.

Holmes, Mary Jane (1825–1907) American popular novelist. Born Mary Jane Hawes on April 5, 1825, in Brookfield, Massachusetts; died October 6, 1907, in Brockport, New York; daughter of Preston Hawes and Fanny (Olds) Hawes; married Daniel Holmes, on August 9, 1849.

Mary Jane Holmes’ obituary in the Democrat and Chronicle Sunday Magazine on October 11, 1942, page 3 is a testament to the love bestowed upon Brockport’s authoress. “She went to her death wearing the white rose of a blameless life,” said the rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.

Holmes conjures the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrical evocation of the beauty, pain, and wonder of growing up. “Don’t Tell the Bees” oozes with love and conflict; and of a girl’s passage into womanhood.

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.

Mary Jane Holmes is one of literatures "Forgotten Ladies." In the pantheon of Forgotten American Authors, Mary Jane Holmes (1825 - 1907) stands front and center. She was a very popular author during her lifetime.

Mary Jane Holmes (April 5, 1825 - October 6, 1907) was a bestselling and prolific American author who published 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 lifeti...

Mary Jane Holmes Shipley Drake was an American slave involved in the Holmes v. Ford case, from which she gained her freedom in 1853.

Mary Jane Holmes. HOLMES, Mary Jane, author, born in Brookfield, Massachusetts Her father was a brother of the Reverend Joel Hawes, D.D. She taught in a district school at the age of thirteen.

2007年7月9日 · Mary Jane Holmes Shipley Drake, born in Missouri in 1841, was one of six children of Robin and Polly Holmes. From 1852 to 1853 Mary Jane was the subject of a fifteen-month legal battle known as Holmes v. Ford to obtain her freedom. That battle also helped determine the status of slavery in Oregon Territory.