Who was Julia Emily Johnsen?
And why doesn't she have a Wikipedia page?
[Update– and now she has one, thanks mainly to commenter Jessamyn.]
I came across her works in a recent search for background information. The Penn Library's Online Books Page offers links to 35 of her publications; The Internet Archive offers 90 results, 87 of which seem to be valid; Amazon offers links to 92 (versions of her) publications; Google Books oddly returns only 7 results.
All of Johnsen's works, as far as I can tell, were published by the H.W. Wilson Company, which does have a Wikipedia page. And most of her publications were (annotated) compilations of works by other authors, published as part of the company's "Reference Shelf":
(though some seem to have been published before that series was started.)
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