Julia McNair Wright (1840-1903)

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Julia McNair Wright is buried at Hillcrest Cemetery, Fulton, Missouri.

The Life-Labor of Jean Garston (1859)

The Little Norwegian, and the Young Wood-Cutter: True Stories (1865)

The Shoe Binders of New York; or, The Fields White to the Harvest (1867)

The Cabin in the Brush (1867)

The New York Needle-Woman, or, Elsie’s Stars (1868)

The Corner Stall: A New York Story (1868)

Almost a Nun (1868)

The New York Bible-Woman (1869)

Our Chatham Street Uncle; or, The Three Golden Balls (1869)

Jug-or-Not (1870)

George Wishart (1870)

John Knox (1870)

Martin Luther (1870)

Queen Margaret (1870)

John Calvin (1870)

Renée (1870)

William Tyndale (1870)

Baxter (1870)

John Huss (1870)

Coligni (1870)

Almost a Priest: A Tale That Deals in Facts (1870)

Westward: A Tale of American Emigrant Life (1870)

Priest and Nun (1870)

Moth and Rust: A Very Plain Tale (1870)

John and the Demijohn: A Temperance Tale (1870)

The Lay Sister (1870)

Under the Yoke (1871)

The Pulpit Casual (1871)

The Right or the Wrong Wife? (1871)

The Brandon Ghost (1871)

A Story of Two Poor Fishermen (1871)

Mayor Christmas (1871)

The Best Fellow in the World: His Haps and Mishaps. Narrated For Public Benefit (1871)

A Million Too Much: A Temperance Tale (1871, 1886)

A Ministerial Tea Party (1872)

Beginning a Pastorate (1872)

Sketches of a Country Parish (1872)

The Mystery of an Old Manor Hall (1872)

Our New Summer Resort (1872)

Rock Top Lights (1872)

Dreams of Golden Days (1872)

Saints and Sinners of the Bible (1872)

Marion Through the Brush: A Border Story (1872)

A Rose From Cashmere (1873)

Walking in Newness of Life: A Memorial Tribute to a Pastor (1873)

Genii of Roof and Hearth (1873)

Ben’s Business (1873)

Pro Bono Publico: A People’s Park (1873)

A Ramble in Grayfriars (1873)

A Christmas Fantasy (1873)

Secrets of the Convent and Confessional: The Influence and Workings of Papacy Upon Society and Republican Institutions (1873)

Romain Kalbris: His Adventures By Sea and Shore (trans. 1873)

The Early Church in Britain: Its Faith and Works (1875)

Lights and Shadows of Sacred Story (1875)

Patriot and Tory: One Hundred Years Ago, A Tale of the Revolution (1876)

A Strange Sea-Story: A Temperance Tale (1877)

Twelve Noble Men (1879)

Circled By Fire: A True Story (1879)

Firebrands: A Temperance Tale (1879)

The Curse and the Cup (1879)

The Life Cruise of Captain Bess Adams: A Temperance Tale (1879)

The Complete Home: An Encyclopedia of Domestic Life and Affairs, Embracing all the Interests of the Household (1879, 1889)

A Day With a Demon (1880)

Nothing to Drink: A Temperance Sea Story (1880)

The Oath-Keeper of Forano: A Tale of Italy and Her Evangel (1881)

Practical Life; or, Ways and Means For Developing Character and Resources (1881)

Among the Alaskans (1883)

Roland’s Daughter: A Nineteenth-Century Maiden (1885)

Bricks From Babel: A Brief View of the Myths, Traditions and Religious Belief of Races, With Concise Studies in Ethnography (1885)

The Story of Rasmus; or, The Making of a Man (1886)

Fiddler-Crabs (1887)

“Shall Our Children Study Natural Science?” (1887)

In Black and Gold: A Story of Twin Dragons (1887)

The Heir of Athole: A Story (1887)

Nature Readers: Sea-Side and Way-Side, No. 1 (1887, 1896)

The Cultivation in Young Children, of a Taste for the Literary and Scientific (1888)

Scientific Collections: How Made (1888)

Nature Readers: Sea-Side and Way-Side, No. 2 (1888, 1889)

Nature Readers: Sea-Side and Way-Side, No. 3 (1888, 1894)

The Captain’s Bargain (1889)

Rag Fair and May Fair: The Story of “Me and Benje” (1889)

The Food of Moles (1891)

A Water-Beetle (1891)

The Shrike (1891)

Mocking-Birds and Their Young (1891)

Frü Dagmar's Son: A Survivor of the “Danmark” (1891)

Nature Readers: Sea-Side and Way-Side, No. 4 (1891, 1892)

Traumatic Hypnotism (1892)

Notes on the Food of the Box Tortoise (1892)

A Wasp Study (1892)

Adam’s Daughters (1892)

A Modern Prodigal (1892)

Mr. Grosvenor’s Daughter: A Story of City Life (1893)

On a Snow-Bound Train: A Winter’s Tale (1893)

The House on the Beach (1893)

Mrs. Julia McNair Wright (1893)

Ragweed: A West-World Story (1894)

A New Samaritan: The Story of an Heiress (1895)

Ideal Homes; or, Our Golden-Milestones (1895)

Her Ready-Made Family (1895)

Ladies’ Home Come Book: A Complete Cook Book and Manual of Household Duties (1896)

The Cardiff Estate: A Story (1897)

Astronomy: The Sun and His Family (1898)

Botany: The Story of Plant Life (1898)

Toward the Glory Gate: A Story of Soul Growth (1898)

A Boy of To-Day (1898)

The Fourth Eclogue of Virgil (1898)

The Awakening of Kohath Sloane, and Other Stories (1899)

A Ramble in Early Spring (1902)

April Leaves (1902)

The Month of Flower (1902)

June Meadows (1902)

Midsummer Days (1902)

How Plants Live (1902)

The Flowerless Plants (1902)

Studies in Hearts (1902)

Mrs. Julia McNair Wright Dead (1903)


This 4-part story appeared in the February, March, April and May 1871 issues of Our Monthly.

This 2-part story appeared in the January and February 1873 issues of Our Monthly.

This 2-part story appeared in the August and September 1873 issues of Our Monthly.