The herald., 1896-08-09
SOME WOMEN WRITERS.

Mrs. Craigie John Oliver Hobbes).
author of The Gods, Some Mortals, and
Lord Wickenham, Some Emotions ana
a Moral, etc, is English by birth, but
her father Mr.. John Morgan Richards,
Welsh by descent, is an American. Mrs
Craigie is one of the deepest read, most
serious and most widely cultured Wom-
en- of her time. She took two years
course in classics and philosophy at Uni
versity college, London. and has pursued
other studies under private tuition.
Miss Montressor, who was born in 1862,
is the youngest child of the late Admiral
F. b. Montressor. Royal Navy. into
the Highways and Hedges is her first
novel. and shows the care and thought OF
nearly eight years work. Her first nov
ell has been followed by two books, The
One Who Looked On and False Coin
or True?
Miss Dougalrs home was formerly in
Canada, but of late years she has spent
much time in England. Canada usually
furnishes the background for her tales,
The Mermaid. The Zeit- -Gheist, The Ma
donna of a Day, etc.
Mrs. Everard Cotes (Sara Jeannette
Duncan), author of His Honor and
Lady, A Social Departure, An Ameri-
can Girl in London, The Simple Adven'
lures of a Memsahib, etc. is the daugh-
ter of Charles Duncan, a merchant CT
| Brantford. Ontario, where she was edu-
| cdleu. AltcT ltdCillilS lOI d llllle Slle en-
| tered upon journalistic work, and har
| first literary success, A Social Depart
| ure, was due to a journey around the
| world, undertaken as the correspond
ent of various English an Canadian
newspapers. She is the wife of Prof.
| Everard Cotes, formerly at the Indian
| museum, now a journalist in Calcutta.
Maxwell Gray, who has won prom
inent place among contemporary nov
| elsts. is known in real life as Miss M.
G. Tuttlett. and lives in the Isle Of
| Wight. Some eight or nine years ago she
| became famous as the author of The
| Silence of Dean Maitland and her later
novels. The Reproach of Annesley, In
the Heart of the Storm. A Costly Freak
and An Innocent Imposter, have been
| distinguished by power and originality.
| Her life is quiet one. occupied for the
most part with literary pursuits and do
| mestic interests. She has not put out
| any new books for some time past.
| Miss Molly Elliott Sewall is a niece
| of ex-President Tyler, and her father was
| a lawyer of distinction in Virginia. She
| is near and direct descendant of an old
German family, the Armisteads, who
came from Hesse-D Darmstadt and settled
| in Virginia. Among their descendants
| may be mentioned Gen. Robert E. Lee
and John Tyler. Miss Sewall's home is
| in Washington. Her first work in lit
| erature was a number of Russian stories
contributed to Lippincotts Magazine.
| They We're followed by Maid Marian and
| The Berkeleys and Their Neighbors.
which established the reputation and
literary ability of the young author. Her
! stories of the sea contained in the Young
| Heroes of the Navy series began with
Little Jarvis the Youths Companion
prize story, which has been followed by
Midshipman Paulding, Decatur and
Somers and Paul Jones
E'laannr mt
lures. is the daughter of a member of
| the New York bar She was born in New
Jersey, June "a, 1873. and was educated
| Dy SoVerneSseS at home. and also at a
private school in Philadelphia, where
she showed prediction for literature
ana music. Later she published few
! snort stories. Among her relatives were
we'll known writer's, whose suggestions
! ana crlrlclsms she acknowledges with
! gratitude. Her first book was the strong
| and original study of life in a PennsvI
! Vania manufacturing town, Stonepas-
| lures.
OF Miss Mary Louise Pool It is said
| that stay of several winters in the
south gave her the first materials for
| novel writing and she wrote In a Dixie
/ Shanty there. She is a sincere lover of
! the country, of horses and of dogs. and
takes driving trips among the New Eng
iand mountains A Vacation in a Buggy
is description of one of these journeys.
| She does her work in the morning. If is
MISS Pools long residence in Wrentham.
Mass, that enabled her to draw with
such life-like accuracy the portraits of
| the ordinary man and woman of the
New England courS'y. In that old
fashloned farming town she led the life
that best suited her. While it contains
| people OF culture, girls like Roweny. II
also contains those whose Vernacular
Miss Pool has used as one who has always
heard it. This author spent the winters
of several years in Brooklyn going from
that city to establish home in Wren
! tham. where ii was an easy thing to live
out OF doors in the summer, among the
hills of that lovely country.