The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-07
MRS. FRANK LESLIE,

The Career Of the Remarkable Woman
Who Has Again BcconG II Eridc-.i Story
Of Pluck AMI Perseverance,.
The New York World has the follow
Ing interesting sketch OF Mrs. Frank
Leslie, whose marriage to William c.
Kingsbury Wilde, NJ. A., OF London,
brother OF Oscar Wilde, was announced
Sunday:
Probably 10 American woman is bet
Ter known III this country and on the
continent than Mrs. Frank Leslie. She
stands in the front rank with women
who have contested for supremacy in
realms hitherto dominated by man
alone. She possesses deal OF American
"gmptlon and zeal she speaks grace
July five languages, is handsome in
form and face, wears No. shoe, is
chamingly eccentric and, above all, has
been engaged in intercstin. fiir.ations.
Nrs. Frank Leslie's maiden name was
Miriam FUl!!nc. She was born in New
O'canS, wcll-about forty years AGO.
She was ten years old when he father
took her to Cincinnati, and ut thirteen
She dritcd into literature. She began
writing Ior the papers, and in that way
Became associated with Frank Leslie.
During the illness OF one OF the wo-
men editors Miriam Fullinc was given
her position temporarily, and at her
death she was made editor OF Frank
A~i<s LdlisS' Magazine. She was eight
cen then. Leslie proposed" one day,
and on another day Miriam Fuliine be.
came Mrs. Frank Leslie.
Now, Leslie wasn't his real name.
Henry Carter was his name. He was
Inc son OF glove manufacturer OF Ips-
Nltch, Suffolk county, England lie Ind
di9Hlness Tor drawing and engraving,
WMch his family discouraged. So, to
!Ie his identity he adopted the name
Oh Frank Leslie. lie married mt seven
,!geh; and the union was so objectiona-
be that his family gave him up. Then
ne cIuns to his adopted name.
Leslie died in 1850. His dying words
were an injunction 10 his wife 10 take
MS pace III business and try TO lift it
oNt Of the mire OF its encumbrances,
Mrs. Leslie had a 100000 debt to
i sIaft on Then came eleven law suits,
cut SuI all OF them were wonby the women.
cue laced all her difficulties with 4 bray
cry mat was positively heroic.
Her pluck WAS shown two days after
s FL TOOK charge OF affairs. That was
"a Ti Garfield fell by Guitcau's bullet.
,, Inc news reached New York at 9
TrlocE OIL saturday morning, anu at 10
FRANK LcsiIG-shc had assumed his legal
IM;allile-had two artists cn the way 10
Washington. For two days, OIL i!cir
return, Mrs. Laslie worked with them
i Ilag oy side, until midnight, never
!r2,Slihg the building. Hers was the first
p p, OF the kind. One hundred
T M ninety thousand copies were sold.
Ina was 4 starter.
,, pu' frank Leslie needed money. She
secured loan OF $4,000 in II reinarkn-
Brooklyn. ou III
Inc woman had Just heard OF Mrs,
'.,.; That was all. Nevertheless she
S 5', nera check for that amount, and
t %1s WIN WIN difficulty persuaded to accept
'v II, diamonds as part surety.
Inc first instalincnt was Ia have bocn
iro 81 November ! OF that year. but
wv, ,"o uiys before that date Mrs. Leslie
'"ia me entire amount, with interest.
al ~ March, 1880, Mrs. Leslie was book.
J ~ ;oF 4 second time to we'd the Marquis
~ y, LelvI!lc, that is in the newspapers
, i've years previous all Eurouc and
IoaS had it that the match had been
I "%"y y II was admitted by the MARQUIS,
0I We GienieQ b. Mrs. Leslie.
,b; "Hen nc 1890 rlmors began to ily
INC. LICK and last Nrs. leslie admitted
' "'"I she had loved the MARQUIS iive
ifv1 M aS99, but she denied very positive.
rsn "'s' mere was any truth in the then
-, iMs marquis was second t;mc
, ,IS%,'!'y induced to admi. that this time
'" ~ would be 4 wedding sure.
7 O SiHse!E following this admission Mrs
anS .: grew less positive in her deniols
"I iina!ly they began to be accented rs
eycr i One beautiful day, how
tbS S' ,o,i sue announced very firmly that
a ng ,a'N was all bosh andtherc tended
wj %ss. Leslie, being very vivacious
wn S'T w., rs well as a very wealthy one,
, Trs me heroine OF many similar RI,
;n U T. She had n faculty OF captiyat.
Ola 'He nobility, US she did every ono
''IG Tor that matter. o'
:" an interview with a reporter on a