Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-28
SOME WOMEN WRITERS.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has been fairly prosperous with her pen, and has won fame.
 Kate Field, clever as she is with her pen, could not support herself, if dependent upon it.
 Marietta Holley ('Josiah Allan's wife'0 has made money for the past ten years writing dialect stories.
 Mrs. Martha J. Lamb has worked for years on her Magazine of American History and gets modest support out of it.
 Susan Coolidge, as child's story writer, has had moderate success, and this can be said of number of writers for children.
 Louisa Alcott made money, which was safely invested and brought her good returns At the time of her death she was worth at least $20O,0OO.
 Mrs. Lew Wallace Mrs. Dahlgren and Mrs. Custer have written books, and have been helped to regulations by the fame of their husbands.
 One of the most successful of book makers among women is Mrs McNair, of Philadelphia, who wrote 1.-The Complete Home" a subscrip- ton book which sold enormously ten years ago.
 Miss Mary Cruger, who has written a number of successful second class novels, has just published book explaining how to live on $50 year, on which yearly sum she says that she lives
 Miss Nora Perry, Sarah O. Jewett, Mrs. Whitney, Miss Woolson, Edna Dean Proctor and other writers who might be named are not workers for bread in the sense that what they have is what they earn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe has been an indus trious writer, and she has lived inexpensively always yet she has never earned more than g., 800 any year of her life, and her yearly in come from her books is now much less than s20OO.
 Gail Hamilton' Miss Dodge) has never made much money, though she is rated as the cleverest among her sister writers. She works when she chooses apd does good work because she has ample leisure in which 10 write.
 Susan B. Anthony has a slight, girlish figure, blue eyes and dimpled cheeks Her manners are peculiarly winning and gentle, and she is fond of being caressed and petted by her friends, whom she always asks to call her ''Susie.'
 Augusta Evans Wilson, the author of ''st Elmo, "''Beulah," and other sensational novels which have been successful, never made money until she had married a very rich husband and could write book over a dozen times if she wished.
 Ella Wheeler Wilcox did not begin writing until she was 39, and has written almost night and day for the past eighteen years. She is very domestic in her tastes, and often dons a big kitchen apron and makes her husbands favorite pie for breakfast.
 Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has made some reputation and more money with her pen for two or three years past, but her work has not been popular with publishers, be cause she has not the tact to adapt herself to the public, and to write popular stuff.
 Charles Egbert Craddocz is soon to be married to Great Smoky Mountain resi- dent. She is said to be fond of the simple, rural life of those hardy mountaineers, and expects to be very happy when she is one of them, and is herself wearing a pink calico dress and green slated sunbonnet.
 Mrs. William P. Frye, wife of the Maine senator, is said to be writing novel which will deal with Washington society life Mrs. Frye, who was a Miss Speare, comes of a talented kllnily, and is cousin of Miss Efie l. Canning, of Boston, who made herself famous by her popular song, "RccE-a-by, Rahvn