Maud Petitt is an author about whom little public information is available. Her nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not clearly recorded. What is known is that only one work by her survives, namely Beth Woodburn. Judging from the period in which the work circulated, her writing activity appears to date roughly to the early twentieth century. Owing to the scarcity of historical sources, a full assessment of her literary output is difficult, yet this single work is enough to draw attention to her place in the literary activity of that era. For readers studying early twentieth-century women's writing, Petitt's name and Beth Woodburn remain a noteworthy but still little-explored entry.
