Author:Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
American novelist, credited with authoring of one of the first detective novels in the United States. She wrote more than 100 dime novels, pioneering the field.
She also wrote under the names Corinne Cushman, Eleanor Lee Edwards, Metta Fuller, Walter T. Gray, Mrs. Orrin James, Rose Kennedy, Louis LeGrand, Mrs. Mark Peabody, The Singing Sybil, Mrs. Henry Thomas.
Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
Works edit
- With Frances Fuller Victor, Poems of Sentiment and Imagination (1851) IA
- Fresh leaves from western woods (1852) IA
- The senator's son (1853) IA
- Fashionable dissipation (1858) IA
- Miss Slimmens' window (1859) IA
- The Poets and Poetry of the West: With Biographical and Critical Notices/Metta Victoria Victor (1860)
- Alice Wilde (1860), IA / IA (considered by some to have been the first dime novel)
- Lives of female Mormons (1860) IA
- The Unionist's daughter (1861) IA
- Maum Guinea, and Her Plantation "Children" (1861), expressing abolitionist sentiments
- The Dead Letter (1866), the first full-length American work of crime fiction IA
- The Figure Eight (1869) IA
- A Bad Boy's Diary (1880)
- The Blunders of a Bashful Man (1881) IA
- Miss Slimmens' boarding house (1882) IA
Works about Victor edit
- The Poets and Poetry of the West: With Biographical and Critical Notices/Metta Victoria Victor
- Woman of the Century/Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (1893)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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