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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Mary Traill Spence Lowell Putnam (1810–1898)

Putnam, Mrs. Mary (Lowell). An American historical and miscellaneous writer, sister of J. R. Lowell; born in Boston, Dec. 3, 1810; died in 1898. In 1832 she married Samuel R. Putnam, a merchant of Boston. Besides a translation from the Swedish, and numerous magazine articles, she published: ‘History of the Constitution of Hungary’ (1850); ‘Records of an Obscure Man’ (1861); and two dramatic poems on the subject of slavery, entitled ‘The Tragedy of Errors’ and ‘The Tragedy of Success.’