Laura Jean Libbey was an American

United States

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 writer.

The highly popular author of fiction, her works were what became known as dime novel

Dime novel

Dime novel, though it has a specific meaning, has also become a catch-all term for several different forms of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S...

s. Today they would be categorised as formulaic romance novels.

In 1898, at the age of 36, she married a lawyer. They did not have children.

On her passing in 1924, she was buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, Kings County , New York. It was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2006 by the U.S. Department of the Interior.-History:...

 in Brooklyn, New York.

In the 1920s some of her novels were filmed.

External links

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• American Women's Dime Novel Project biography