, 1869-03-28
PERSONAL SKETCHES.
ss,a Csurke Lipplncoss.

j, Ne*-R1-aIFetJ lew persons WILL TefoRn1zc
n me name Of Sara Clarke Lpplucott the
"eu'hoHn vfiler, Grace Greenwood, who
ye2is ago achieved wide popularity under
shat pteudonym. ehe Is still an earnest
WORKER with her pen. thouph she has mainly
oeso'ed hesae1 to1 some time past TO Whist
Il Known as Juvenile literature.
NATIVITY AND LINEAGE.
sasa Clarke, now about 1--WE aud fo,tr, WAS
born Il. Ponpey, ouondaga County. in this
STATE She Is the daughter Of Dr. Thadaeus
Clarke. and tho granddaughter Of the ia
NOUS Jonathan Edwards. Though she has
preserved :cmc Of the t1aits OF her dlstin-
Rulshed ancestor, she has advanced with the
age, ard rejected his stern Calvlnlsu. Her
intimate acquaintance with and passionate
love or nature have made belief Ia total de-
pravity and eternal punishment impossible
to her mind. The flowers, the brooks, the
woods. Tue stars, the green valleys aud the
golden sunshine, have taught her that human
Ways and Divine ways run parallel; tnat
good the synonym Of Gnd; that by love
me world moves and all miracles arc
l JUVENILE XApcAP,
Those who knew s2rn In her childhood
and etrly gtzlbood tay sho was as natural
and a!moft as wild ~ gypsy. When she
WAa nine and ten she used to wander of in
ne morning, 20 into tho woods near the
cuts and wild flowers, listening to The birds
and WadIng In tho streams She often
frightened her parents by her long absence.
They feared she wAs LOST or that some accI.
dent had befa!len her. But she always came
home uDhutt except By bzambles and 'thorns,
frightened by the vigor Of her exercise. Her
garments were less fortunate. Not irfre-
quently che left her bonnet In the bushes and
iraGments Of her dress In the thtckets'she had
struggled through IN her search for flowers.
She was more masculine than feminine In her
tastes and The d1muess of her nerves. She
seemed to have little eaution. though she was
sensitive and romantic Is any Of her ser. and
to be entirely free from the Thousand nervous
teIIors which usually haunt girls Of her aga.
Horseback. riding was one OF her hyoFite
paasames; nor did abe care how she rode.
s.de-saddles she deAplsed, or saddics Of any
ktEd for matter Of that ehe wanted no
batter sport than to leap upon the back of
any hofse she found In the pasture, getting
halter over his head after decelving HIM
With an ear Of corn. Then she would throw
Oh her shoes, aud, standing upon his back,
would 20 catering across the fields In q
style that would hare delighted the mar-
aEer OF . circus, and have made him liberal
In his offers for such al acquisition to the
Ea"dust arena. Bone Of the older paople
Who witnessed her mad pranks, and were
duly shocked thefeat, predicted that she
would become circus actrcts-a prediction
which, however improbable, must have dis
turbed the bones Of Jonathan Edwards.
Think OF tho great granddaughter Of the
author Of the Treatise on the Will" doing
3 daring equestrian act Ia apaueles and short
skirts, and perceive the scandal It must crc.
ate In the minds OF the orthodox
SCHOOL DA1s.
Little Sara WAS yerF Dttefcfous hui un{f1
She was twelve she had hardly my mental
training. At that age she was sent to reside
with an elder brother In Rochester, where
she entered regularly upon course OF in-
st1uction, she proved an apt scholar, though
she studied in a deeultory way, sometimes
very hard, and sometimes not At all. Rhetoric
aud poetry were her iayorltes, and for every
thing that belonged 10 pure literature sho
had q natural affinity. The science Of mum.
bers she conld never master, aud when she
COMPLETED her studies In her nineteenth year
the simplest sum IN atithmstfc or algebra she
| did with great difficulty.
| While at school she contributed to the
| Rochester papers, both In prose and verse,
| and her contributions, possibly because moi
| paid for, were always welcome. She wrote
under various pen-namet, and few persons,
| not In her immediate circle. knew who WIS
the author of the clever and graceful essays,
| poems and letters that they read Nith pleas.
| ure. In her aercnteenth year she adopted
! the nom de faunts she still preserves and ha.
! rendered famous. She made hosts Of friepds
at school, for she was genial, open,heartcd,
sincere and generous to fault. She wa
+; qulck-tempc1cd, like most sensitive natures
but her resentmcnts were shoet-lived, nc
traces ofeullepuess shining her high spirit.
! LITERATURE As 4 Profession.
While Grace was in Rochester her fathe,
! removed from Ouondaga County to New
Brighton, PennsylTanla. and 70 her new and
pleasant home she went when she quilted
schoot. She at once resumed her pen, ant
rcsolycd to become professional wIttet
Under her sobriquet see contributed to the
then popular magazines, aud WAS not long In
versatile writer. We we're neither fastidion:
nor exactInC in those da5s-it was more thar
twenty years ago-for then Willis passed ioI
Wit and Norris for poet, and Cody ant
PdeTsoa'- Aagdstne occupied the rank tha
Horper's and the Atlantic do now. Grace 40
pcafcd in tho Home Journal, the Nationa
Era, Ntars Gd.<ife ard Godty IN variety 0
competitions, Most Of them were creditable
and all Of them above the average Of utcrar
contributions Of the time.
REPUTATION EASILY MADE,
+, Eyersbody was a anxious 70 know VII
stories were in circulation respecting the ue7
writer. Some said she was IN old maid
some that she Was q young and beautiful
girl, which wAs halftrue; others, akain, tka
Grace was petron who had dipped hts PEI
In the nomenclature OF pcttcoats, but who's
quired who she WAS, and wrote laudator
paragraphs about her full of straiued cor
ceits, that were considered verbal beautlc.
. Whittier, one of the lew who had her secre,
warmly commended her; and, Indeed, sh
man oi her years had gained In this country
aud easy, and much Of her 1ritipg was {
superior order. All the pra1se she receive
, failed 10 spoil her, and she had mose tha
always unaffected, and did not cansldt
poetry and domestic duties In any manns
. lrreconeilabie. Wholly free from any tin,
turc OF ttstroug.mindedness" 81 as common1
understood, she helped her mother when 81
/ went home, - she did every summer, in al
= az cy and much OF the romplng dispo.ltio
. that had characterized her early girlhood.
> In 1850. volume OF her sketches and Ic
! ters, pablished b5 Ticknor & Fields, MT
. with hatteriug reception, under the tit
) Of "Greenwood Leaves" A second seri
and met with equal success. Then followe
(, book Of verses, winch, With 4 good dc
! | thAt Is commonplace, contained pieces
a decided merit that have the genuine ring
:: poesg.
= In 1858 Grace went to Europe, where 81
! spent fourteen or fifteen months, md when
= she wrote series Of excellent letter., pt
i hape the best specimens Of literary compo
1 ton she has given us. Many Of her desert
: tons are hne word-picturc., and hare oil
= been reproduced. She proved she had d n
and azti.tic eye, aud that .he could see sem
3 thing more than the surfaces Of things.
= APTKRWARD,
Several years atter her rtturn she Was ms
: rcd to Lcandez E. ,LpPineost, In Philad
phia. By whom she has had several chtldre
Her maternity seems to have begotten 4 ps
fourd sympathy with iittle people, for who
shc now writes almost exclusively. She
long been the editor Of q Juvenile mouth
known As the Little Pilgrim. which Is one
the best publications Of the kind In the COT
She has also lectured good deal, aud d,
Ing the war vas most earnest and unhinc
inc advocate Of the government, using eve
effort In her power to strengthen its hAn
and aid our toldiers. Che has written fl
auently for the lad<ptndeaf, and her last bo
selections trom her lectures.
HEa PAEskX1. 49,.
nez husband, not being Of = very practit
turn, hss sunk = very &
siderable part OF her earnings In business
tezpr,ses; but her losses have had no eff
She Is hsrd, Jealous worker, and preser,
all her old faith In Just1ce, truth and the
ture. Philadelphia continues TO be her hon
and she can be seen in the Pilgrim Office
most any day.. tail, 1.-THE. dark-ha1r,
bright. eyed woman. = little worn, an expl
eion of sadness Ia her face, ~ II grief b
come too toon and etayed too long hut "
agenta1. kizdly, tsu.tful look, declaring Il
through every outward circumstance the
ner life and love oi the nohIe woman are
UNCHANGED. J. q. I
T1usntnv n lie for nh y n Inc
Twas invited last week to testdde1p b.
famous bull fighter, 4 fellow who, thot
immensely rich, still WORKS on his own est
likc couuop pcasaDt, and whose boast c