Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-18
Homes and Work of the
Loney-Making AuthOreSses
of the Capital
ices Hodgson Burnett and Her
Workshop Mrs. SouthwOrths'
Georgetown Home-Kate
Field.
lance Fenimore woolson and Her ANNE"
iOw the Pope thanked Mrs Admiral
Dahlgren-Mrs. LOgan's work.

- scial correspondence OF the Gazette.
inngAsHINGToN, May l4.-Washington
chez ranks with Boston and New York as
stalterary center. Some Of the best pay
90 books in American literature have
TN written here, and we have authors
Ura authoresses who are growing fat on
besir royalty. Mrs. Frances Hodgson
rnett was here short time ago, and 1
I'm that 1870 900 copies Of Little Lord
auntleroy" have been sold in America
So apiece. The book has been trans
ited into the French, the German, and
think the Italian, and Mrs. Burnett
ats copyright on her English publica-
ons. She wrote Little Lord Fauntle-
)y' at her hone in Washington, and l
ave often seen the Iong-hared, blue
yed little youngs ter who sat for its hero
,laying in the Washington streets almost
lnder the feet of the horses, and now
and then having fight with some of the
other Little Lord Fauntleroys OF the
neighborhood. At this time Mrs. Bur-
7Att's Washington home was on street,
aIJSxt the house Gen. Garfield owned
steals was a senator. 1t was of the
THE Sentional order, and cost 1
nleoes $4,000. A year or so ago
class work, bought a house in the
HE. -thwest, and she now
The score wa Blalne's mansion, and
20 that of Chief Justice
juse is very curious
Rodemaker. SIX and brown stone, and
o'Connor, nudge, sell for S25, 200 at
bogsrty' IBIS comfortably furnished,
McVey. If Iors show one of Mrs. Bur-
adams, I, which is q passion for old
sstogGifftasUgs. Mrs. Burnett has never
smitiT'y much writing in this house,
g will probably do much of her
work in it. Among her contracts
. for a novel for the New York
4ger, for which she is said TO be offer
ed $40, 900, and this does not include the
right to publish the story as a book.
She is an easy writer, and uses PEN
Gil rather than pen. She jots down her
ideas on odd scraps of paper and then
puts them together into shape. She
works very hard, and it was oyerwork
which had much to 90 with her illness.
which took her to Europe. She would
have returned to America much sooner
had it not been for the accident which:
laid her up IN London, and she has,
am told, several new stories in view,
though nothing is as yet in manuscript.
She has done very well of of the dramat-
ization of her books, and she is especially
fond of the drama. At one of the Gar
field fairs here she appeared in costume,
with her two boys along with her as Gu
pids, and she formed one of the attrac-
tions of the fair. Mrs. Burnett wrote
her first story when she was fifteen, and
this was, Judge, just about twenty
years ago. She got $50 for it from Go
dey s Ladies Book, and for the same
number OF words she could get $1,000
to-day.
MRS. soUTHwoRTH AND HER FORTUNE.
Mrs. "Alpbabetcsl" E. D. E. N.
Southworth is still grinding out manu-
script more valuable than though each
sheet was written with a diamond
pen on q golden plate. She has
written something like seventy novels,
and she prides herself on having written
one novel for every year of her life. she