The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-04-04
TWO LONDON LITERARY WOMEN.
Pen Sketches of Mrs. Cashel Hoey and
Mrs. Campbell Praed.

Pen Sketches of Mrs. Cashel Hoey and
Mrs. Campbell Praed.
Mrs Cashel Hoey and Mrs. Campbell
Praed are both Gin society" The first
named is an Irish lady of about 60 or
IS, short, stout, round faced and al
ways dressed-according to american
ideas-very unfashionably. The queen
is the grandest Of the grand army Of
dowdily dressed old English ladies,
whose apparel would drive an Ameri-
can woman crazy if she were obliged to
wear it. Loosely fitting bodices, lace
shawls, enormous caps, plainly band
ed hair-natural or a ''scratch"-mitts
and reticule, are component parts of
this get up a la Refine Victoria. By its
wearers it is considered the dignfiied
and becoming thing for elderly wo-
men; while the yellow skinned, thin
old woman, with an abundance of ella
borately dressed gray hair, no cap,
diamond earrings and tightly fitting
Partisan costume is looked upon as
one of the most offensive of American
products, and is the constant subject
of derision from English pens, pencils
and voices.
Although Mrs. Cashel Hoey has
been for many years before the pub
lie as a writer, and has produced ex-
cellent work in fiction, she has never
been fortunate enough to achieve a
wonderful paying success. She has
told me that her earnings average $500
a year, about 81, 500, or $50 week.
She values her American connection
very highly, and acknowledges that
the larger part of her income is de-
rived from America.
Having formed literary partner
ship for copyright purposes with John
Lille, the Harpers are able to protect
her later writings, and pay her with
the promptness and liberality for
which their name is synonym. Mrs.
Hoey lives in pretty house i'll the old
court suburb, kensington, not far
from the beautiful town house of the
duke of Argyll on Campden Hill.
Her husband is legal light, and is a
permanent member Of the counsel for
the management Of the Prince of
Wales Rothesay estates. This office
brings him a salary of 1900 per an
mum, so that financially rs well as so
cially, Mr.. and Mrs. Cashel Hoey are
in All enviable position.
Mrs. Campbell Praed is a graceful,
delicate young woman about IS. She
comes of a good family, and the name
of her husband is also that of one of
the gentility. She lisa charn,ingly ar
tistic dresser, and as far IS her health
will permit associates with gay and
fashionable set. Her novels are wide
ly read, but in England are kept away
from young readers exactly as those
of Ouida. They are i'll certain sense
brilliant, but are restricted to the de-
lineation of scenes and manners of a
fast and loose class of pcople-a kind
only too prominent in large cities i'll
this feverish age. Her literary style
violates all canons of the art, as under
stood and studied by more serious
writers; nevertheless, there is a gla-
mour in her periods, a fascination in
her study Of character which causes a
reader to pursue her fiction breath
lessly to the end. and then tossing it
away, vowing that the time spent in
reading it might and should be more
prohtably employed. Mrs Campbell
Praed has been in America, having
made the now regulation trip thither
with her friend Justin Mccarthy
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