The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-02

much better one" 1t is in Venice. where
She was born OF parents whom 1t is
said. she never knew, having been adopt
ed by English people early in life.
CORELLIS SUNSHINE ROOM.
But / am Venetian and love Venice"
she says. Her workroom where she is
preparing a new and probably the groGt-
est novel that will be written this sum-
mer Is situated upon the rear piazzG Of
the Queerest house in that floating city
of odd structures. Its oddly Is that il
has no walls. 1t hangs apparently from
the side OF the house and is inclosed
with screen of heavy leaves. The SUE
strikes II first this side and then that.
but never direct. Miss Coreln loves to
write In the sunshine and shows her
Italian blood by being "out OF sorts
when the sun does not shine. Her life is
a perpetual chase after the sun-blaze. al q
when she wrote her description OF Nor
way. the Land Of the Midnight Sun. she
did so with shudders. as depicting SCI G.
thing too horrible for calm thought She
writes in whatever gown Is best lifted
TO her story. Those who have seen her
lately in her spring room say that she
IS dressed in a Louis Qunze sJit with
broad GUNS and lapels and that a story
OF that century must be on the pad.
OF sixty. who looks and writes like
girl OF forty. is busy now in her sum-
mer room getting up the story 't'oh it
Is very likely may prove much Letter
than Trilby' and almost as popular.
She writes in a large. roomy, newly
built country house at Cornwall-on- the
Hudson. Though an Englishwoman and
a busy writer. she is a much sought
after resident OF that aristocratic sec
ton and was called by one of her veal
thy neighbors the guest of the Hud-
SON." IL she wanted 10 she could spend
her life being entertained. she is so apt
at conversation and repartee.
AMELIA BARR'S PIAZZA.
Mrs. Bars summer room is big In
closed piazza on the side of her house.
In the winter she uses It for a constitu-
tonai. and in the summer she writes
there's writing a novel there now.
The piazza is also used for another
purpose. Like Marie Corelli. Mrs. Barr
brings her writings for the time being
into her lie. and the piazza becomes a
Scottish homestead. an Irish shanty,
French chateau or plain American
dwelling. The furniture is changed TO
suit the time and place OF writing. and
meals are served out there In accord
with the surroundings at the time.
A visitor 10 the Barr home one sum-
mer found Mrs Barr and the daughter
who assists her at 4 o'clock in the
morning eating a corn cake and drinking
Scottish cruel. They were partaking OF
the breakfast OF the Scottish heroine.
And when a book like Jan Vedder S
wife" Is being written they eat tsh-al-
ways fsh-for Norway!
The piazza looks far up and down the
Hudson and the only time Mrs. Barr
has stopped work for twenty-one years
was when the piazza was being built
She saw It's summer possibilities and
was 30 impatient TO see It finished that
she could not work.
MRS. DELAND'S JONQUILS.
Margaret Deland has 2 summer room
In the heart OF Boston. on Mount Ner-
non street, In what IS called the Hub
of the Hub" IL is a piece OF summer
brought indoors. She has a JonQuil room
containing sometimes a thousand plants
which she raises-and afterwards sells
for the benefit Of the poor. That jonquil
room Is where she writes those true-to-
life stories. and where you Will see her
now. with windows thrown open and
awnings raised 10 let In all the warmth.
Du Maurier was right when he said
they do their best work when they set
close 20 life One. or rather two. of the
busiest women workers-for they work
together a great deal--are Mrs Spencer
Trask. wife OF the banker. and NJ Il. w.
sherwood, the lecturer and writer. Mrs.
Trask has a lovely home at Saratoga
springs which she calls "Yaddo." II 10
of ancient architecture. and stands upon
q rocky height. suggesting castle on
the Rhine.
Ilens tho west side runs . piassa,
wkAps Ma Tyask uerkA and ArA haAr'