 "Rosamond Fane" tells a story of James II as a boy, and "The Oak Staircase" uses the Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion as a starting point.Mary Lee participated in a collaborative novel, "The Miz Maze, or the Winkworth Puzzle", with Charlotte Yonge and seven other writers.She and Catherine published a story called "Hallowmas Eve at Horsemandown" in Yonge's magazine, the "Monthly Packet"