The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-05
OUR WOMEN WRITERS.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE
This is tho Number Of Names In the Com
piIation of Rhode Islands Literary
Women Some of Them are Writers
of Wide Reputation.

has prepared, at the request of the Rhole
Island Women Commissioners of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition, list of
l726 until 1892, with some account of their
work.
The compiling of the list was an ar
duous task. Great pains we're taken not
TO overlook any writer, aud. after they
had all been found, it was nOt small
task 10 alphabetically arrange their
names with short account OF their
writings.
The result of Mrs. Palmer's work is
surprising Rhode Island has given TO
the world sold ers, statesmen, scholars,
pointers, men of letters ard men famed
because of their work In other depart
mems of life, but. excepting the noble
la Lewis, whose bravery i'm saving 80
many men from an ocean grave will make
her name ever live, there are few fam ous
Islanders. IL has remained for Mrs.
Palmer TO show that over l25
Rhcde Island women have done
literary work. more than one would be-
lieye all the state writer's OF hotn sexes
TO number. Some OF the authors men
toned are of wide reputation and in pre-
pairing this list NJ literary women Mrs.
Palmer has executed work of which
every citizel OF the State may we'll feel
proud.
The following Is complete list of those
mentioned In Mrs. Palmer's compilation
witt notice of the kind Of rheir work:
Mrs. Mary II. Adams. Violet, a Story"
Mrs. Lucy Evelyn Metcalf Akerman, poems.
Mrs. Annie Whittier Almy, poems.
Candace Allen, The HyperSolic Curve and
the Law of Progression OF Rotating Bodies
Mrs. Eliza lviall Anderson, 1.-The Merchants
Wife, 1876"
Anna sibley Angel.
susanna Anthony, l526-ls9l, " Familiar Let
ters." In collaboration with Mrs. Osborn.
Katherine Hanson Austin, stories and poems.
Francis Stoughton Bailey.
Mrs Urania Locke Bailey, lS20-lsss, stories
and poems.
Virginia Baker, "prince Carrotte and Other
Chronicles" 1881.
Mrs. i. X. Barney. stories.
Mrs. Louise SNOW Prosser Bates. A. B.. con-
tributvr To papers and magazines on
topics connected with health. habits,
household economies. etc.
Abby ;. Beokwitl. translation OF "Princess
fsle," - Story of the Hartz Mountains"
Mrs. VI. NJ. Brewster, journalist
Mrs. sarah Warner Brooks. poems.
Mrs Ellen II. Brown. journalist.
Mrs. Henrietta NJ X. Brownell, poetry, fc-
tion, travel, correspondence and editorials.
Lorraine l.. Bucklin, studies.
Julia L. Rurge, stories
Mrs. ElcaLor IS. Burges.
Mrs Mary Il. Butts, stories.
Mrs. II. y; Cady, history, -
Sarah Cahoone. sketch of Newport and
Vicinity" 1852.
Annis +. Campbell. journalist.
Esther Bernon Carpenter. stories
Mrs Elizabeth Buffum Chace, stories and
contributions 20 periodicals ~~ topics re-
laiing to the abolition OF slavery, the en-
franchisement OF women, the claims OF
the children Of the State, etc.
Grace Ellery Charming, poems and stories.
Anna Page Child, stories. songs and poems.
Mrs Hannah Childs. The Life OF He Who
Long in Darkness Lay VIII Now be
Brought to Light" 1850.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kittre1ge Churchill, journalist
Martha Clark. born 1896, Victims of Amuse-
Rebccca Coe, pseudonym Leila Lee, "wee,
Wee songs, and The Twins or the Dales
Anna Cole, "A History of Warren" jour-
Mrs; Theodore Dewolf Colt, "stray Fancies,"
Convent Of Mercy. Sisters Mary, Margaret,
Clarissa and Juliana, poems.
Emma NJ. Converse, Studies in Astronomy"
Fanny Cowing, journalist.
Mrs. Abby Allin Curtiss, pseudonym Nilla.
Charlotte Field Daley, "Studies In Ancient
and Modern Art
Mrs l.. A. Davis, "The Gospel Life of Jesus
Christ" lsi5J
Mrs Sarah Douglas. pseudonym Phiomath,
"Expositoory Pharaphrase of the Song Of
Solomon"
Mrs. Jane Anthony Eames born in 1916. an
author OF religious work for the young.
Mrs. Ann Franklin, Journalist, lla2.
Mrs. Josephine l.. Gaskill, Outlines for tho
Emily Olive Gibbs, "Gleanings."
Mrs, Elizabeth y. i!a1dng, poems and
Mrs. 5. Updike Goddard, publisher, 1860
Mrs. Emily Hall, sketches.
Mrs. Louisi j. I rk Hall, poems and stories.
Mrs. Mary Manchester Waterman Hatton,
stories.
Caroline Hazard. stories, sketches poems and
Gertrude Minturn Hazard, in cola boration
with Anna Pearce, poems.
Sarah Il. Hopkins, journalist.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, poems.
Avis Howland, tales.
Ruth Alice Jacobs, stories.
sarah Sprague Jacobs, stories and poems.
Mrs. Eliza q. Jones, ''Poetical Remains" 1865
Mrs Elizabeth g. Jones, poems.
Mrs Emily h Keene, stories.
Mrs j. II. T. and Grace X. Lawton, DIARY Of
Travels"
Mrs. Abby Wheaton Little. memoirs.
Mrs. sophie Little, poems and stories.
Mrs. Eliza Wyman,. "Recollections of Mrs.
Mrs. susan stevens Lyon, pseudonym "Eva,"
Woman in Japan"
sarah Marchant
Mrs. Anna Prince Martin, stories and con-
Mary Mitchell. i73l.lslO: A short account of
the early part of her life.
Mrs; scsah Osborn died In l7S' Familiar
Mrs. Louise Mason Akerman Paine, ls39-s3.
poems.
susanna Paine. stories.
sarah Carpenter Padelford. psuedonym Cla-
rice, educational contributions.
Mrs. Fanny Purdy Palmer, stories and poems.
Mary Eleanor Partridge.
Annie =. Peck, studies.
Mrs. w. q. Perry Pockham, "Spring and
Autumn Leaves"
Dr Grace Pcckham, travel correspondence
and contributions 20 medical literature
Mrs Mary Chace P~,kbam, poems and stories.
Mrs Elizabeth c. Perry, " History of Glouces-
ter, X. l."
Nora Perry. poems and stories.
,irs sophia NJ. Phillips
Ilrs Marie J. Davis Pitman, pseudonym
Marjorie Deans, stories
Mrs Ellen Hedge Poor, lSsi-G6, poems.
Anna Marsh Power, In collaboration with /
sarah Helen Whitman. The Golden |
HALL, THE sleeping Beauty" "Cinder- |
irs. Mary Elizabeth Pratt, stories.
sally Engs Randolph. lSiSpO, translations.
,irs Frances Adelia Reynolds, poetry, sto- !
res and reviews. etc.
.Irs Cornelia IA. Richards, pseudonymn.
.frs Manners, stories.
,Irs. William n. Richards, sonnets.
Nrs. Maria 4. Richards. studies, etc.
Ilarriette 4. Ricsardson, poems.
Emma Robinson. poems.
- ElIon m lkrownl Russell. sOnnets