Julia McNair Wright (, McNair; May 1, 1840 – September 2, 1903) was a popular 19th-century American domestic writer. She published numerous temperance and anti-Catholic stories, among which were ''Almost a Nun''; ''Priest and Nun''; ''The Gospel in the Riviera''; ''The Heir of Athole'', ''Scenes of the Convent''; ''A Wife Hard Won''; ''A Million Too Much''; ''The Complete Home''; ''Bricks from Babel''; as well as scientific stories entitled, ''The Sun and His Family''; ''The Story of Plant Life''; ''The Nature Readers, Seaside and Wayside''. She was the main author of ''Ladies' Home Cook Book: A Complete Cook Book and Manual of Household Duties... Compiled by Julia Mac Nair Wright, et al.'' (532 pages). Wright died in 1903.
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