Minnie Mary LeeMinnie Mary Lee began writing at a young age but did not publish a book until her forties. Her published works included The Heart of Myrrha Lake, Or, Into the Light of Catholicity (New York, about 1871; 2nd edition, 1873), Hubert's Wife: A Story for ou (Baltimore, 1875), The Brown House at Duffield: a Story of Life without and within the Fold (Baltimore, 1877), and The Story of Annette and her Five Dolls: Told to Dear Little Catholic Children (Baltimore, 1880). Julia Amanda Sargent was born in New London, New Hampshire, on April 13, 1825. She was the daughter of Ezekiel Sargent and his wife Emily Everett Adams. She was educated at Colby Academy and the Charlestown Female Seminary in Boston. Her parents moved to Covington, Kentucky, where she married William Henry Wood, a practicing lawyer from Greensburg, Kentucky, in 1849. They relocated two years later to Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River, which was the capital and intellectual center of the Minnesota commonwealth at the time. The next year, William was appointed as government Land Receiver. William had intellectual tastes and the capacity to write and orate. Read More Read Less