Mary Traill Spence Lowell Putnam (December 3, 1810 – June 1, 1898) was an American author.
Putnam's literary work was confined to magazine writing until 1844, when she translated from the Swedish Fredrika Bremer's The Handmaid.
[a] She contributed to the North American Review articles on Polish and Hungarian literature (1848–1850), and to the Christian Examiner on the history of Hungary (1850–1851).
[1] Her name became widely known when she became involved in a controversy with Francis Bowen, editor of the North American Review, regarding the war in Hungary.
Returning to the United States, she became a prominent abolitionist writer, and wrote two dramas on slavery.