Fee, Mary H.

Mary H. Fee was an American writer about whom little public information is available; neither her dates nor her full English name are clearly recorded. Judging from the two works held in the collection, her writing centers on personal experience and observation. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines draws on her life and travels in the Philippines, recording local customs and everyday impressions from a woman's perspective in the form of travel writing, while The Locusts' Years shows that her range was not limited to accounts of foreign places. Overall, her output is small and leans toward firsthand experience and local observation, written in a plain and natural style with a strong personal stamp, offering some reference value for understanding Philippine society at the time and American writers' overseas accounts.