Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831-1916) was an American writer of adult and juvenile fiction.
She would go on to publish at least a novel a year until her retirement in 1913..
Learning from this first experience, Douglas made sure to retain the copyrights on all of her future works.
Her first novel, In Trust, was published in 1866 and sold some 20,000 copies.
In time her stories appeared in editions of The New York Ledger, Saturday Evening Post and the Lady\'s Friend Magazine.
Douglas began by submitting short stories and poems to local publications.
She was probably best remembered by young readers of her day for the Little Girl and Helen Grant series published over the decades flanking the turn of the twentieth century.
Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831-1916) was an American writer of adult and juvenile fiction
