Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-07-07
FRANCES hooesoN euRNerr.
ylow she works--Iicr First storics-what
shc Receives.
Especial corrapondence,l

large number of persons earning their |
livelihood solely by the exercise Of their |
literary faculties and capacity than was |
tho case hve.and. twenty years ago This |
u to be partially accounted for by the |
amazing development and multiplication |
Of the newspaper and literary periodical.
Nearly everybody writes nowadays,
until 1t has become almost distinction
not to writc. Yet among the many arc
ward. They who have done so found
their harvest In the field Of fiction. It is
an old, trite assertion that the imagina.
ticn Is tho faculty whose exercise com.
mands the highest price. So II does, II
said Imagination runs of on a path and at
o pace that pleases. Then II makes what
Is slangily called "hit;' its books sell
publishers are gracious TO its owner;
newspapers publish Aattering sketches Of
him; the public run after him, and other
writers envy him.
Rarc, indeed, Is the writer who rc.
ccives, as does Mrs. Frances Hodgson
Burnett, 5000 for Q novel published
serially and as much again when put in
book form. Happily, literature, like the
stage, Is profession In which women are
Into account. In fact, II Is generally ad.
mittcd that genius Is sexless.
Let beginners take heart and be en-
couraged rather than cast down by Mrs.
Buruett's success. She had to climb from
the ground slowly to her present enviable
round ON the ladder Of success. Why,
there Is story Of her that when girl Of
10 and living with her mother. sisters
and brothers on farm near Knoxville,
Tenn, she gathered wild grapes and
hired little colored girl to take them
into the town and sell them, In order to
buy postage to send some stories to pub.
lisherA Her sister, who read these tales
with pleasure, suggested that she try to
find market for them; but they kept
all this profound secret from the two
teasing brothers. who knew Of Frances
production for writing, and were given to
quently indulged In long conversations
with imaginary persons. gravely remark
ing that these were dialogues from book
by Frances Hodgson, now in press and
soon to be published. Many genius has
felt the withering ridicule Of big broth
ers" and grown up sisters so keenly that
life time Of success could scarcely win
back his self confidence. think 1t Is
George Eliot who speaks Of "the brutal
frankness of near relation"
-
Yes, and when young Dr. Burnett mar
ried Frances Hodgson the FIRST families"
In their locality thought he had con.
descended. But the sequel proved, as Is
ot,en tne case, Una. the prevision OF tho
nrst iamiies had peen at iauit, Anttie
later, ~ nus wlie earnest soiicitation, tney
Went 10 England 10 give MN an oppor'
tunity OF Studying diseases OF the eye,
sPeciAl.y M wmcn ne mas since attalneu
.. enueneei s ns Una. l.lno mrs; our-
nets was beginning 70 succeed with her
pen, anu ~ ID salo tnat herl orR sup
Portou tnem curing TINS time' u
MRS. burnett IS OF Enghsh birth; shc
was p0rn III Mahenester, england, ana
nved tnere hntii her .enth year. on the
deetn OF her iather ner mother brought
the iamiiy 70 hnoxViue, where she hao
orotner hving, VINO had repeatedly as
sureo nus sister tnas america was tne pet
yer country IN which 70 pr1ng up aIamhy.
MRS. noagson took q farm. where ner two
SOILS anu tnree aAushters couid work anu
earn tner Dread. iet tney grew poorer
msseao OF r,cner.
frances nrst m s.ory was sent 70 nauous
Montniy Inc eoitor prSiseo ~ IN iet.
yer 70 tne young autnor; anu SAID no
wouiu Puuush ~, pu. woMlo hos promise
70 pay ny.nihg ior ~. ene hao ,ne geoa
sense 70 tePiy 'nae wnas was gooa enough
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