Seeley RegesterSeeley Regester (1831-1885) was the pseudonym of Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, one of the most popular and prolific authors of mid-nineteenth-century America. She published more than one hundred novels in a wide variety of genres, including romance, esterns, temperance novels, and children's literature. She is best remembered for The Dead Letter (1867), the first full-length work of crime fiction by an American author. Her abolitionist dime novel, Maum Guinea, and Her Plantation "Children" (1861), was praised by Abraham Lincoln. Read More Read Less