Amanda Minnie Douglas (1831–1916) was an American writer who specialized in both adult and juvenile fiction. Active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Douglas established a career writing stories that captured the imagination of her contemporary audience. Her work spanned multiple genres, allowing her to reach a diverse readership of both adults and young people during a transitional period in American literature.
Among her body of work, Douglas was most widely recognized and remembered by the youth of her era for her popular serialized fiction. Her most notable literary contributions include the Little Girl series and the Helen Grant series. These multi-volume works, published over the decades flanking the turn of the twentieth century, became staple reading for young audiences of the period, securing her legacy as a prominent writer of juvenile series fiction.
