The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-11
The Late Mrs. Wilson
Her Life And Her Work


singular conjunction Of culture and
young lady in question mad swallowed
is.s 70 sssssi its - popaIsrity.
novel the author received check OF
$4,000 before II was put in print.
IT, circulation and the fame OF Its
vriter spread wide and far. as is evil
india saw q Parsee boy reading Lon
don edition OF this book in the shadow
OF the Tai Hahal.
many ways. Salome owen. an orphan,
was taken from the asylum and adopt
90 by Jane Grey. At is she was des-
peratsly IN love with uipian Grey. her
Re loved vashti Carlyle. 8 woman who
had married q man utterly unworthy OF
her When free from him. he would
ns Dr. Grey saddsn Ssi for ore the nssr reain
der Of his life. aaiome allowed her
giifrlnsss e bring per to dire ex.
she had, unasised. given her heart.
Or. Grey found her after many year
very poor and hunbls, and induced her
horne. IT Il an sxquisitely psnped
SSssi ths, willuihsss br as'i IL = pa &c.
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married. since the pubiication 81 her
yoaps wife ana Ssr ' oslu e e oSa
happy sndisS f fciiowsa after many sas
chapters full Of sadness.
~ Dc MeFcy q Tfber1us.
This novel appeared In 1887. twelve
years after yInfelice." Mrs. wiison
spoke OF this as her strongest book.
laughingly declaring that even though
the youngest should be cross-eyed, red
headed and freckie-faced, IL is never
.h 1ss the baby TIE critics ,si h.cyssysr
written more rapidly than any OF her,
being finished in six weeks. Speaking
Of II recently, the author ssid: "sBeu-
las rejects to some extsnt the strug-
gle between doubt and faith through
which 4 passed in early life. and all
though many phiioscpbtc problema re-
main unsolved, my belief In the relig-
ion as taught by Jesus Christ. is irn-
plicit and unaiterabls. -
Z The plot OF .eTiberius'sturns on the
conviction OF a young girl for the all
legged murder Of her grandfather. the
evidence being circumstantia1 and her
prosecutor being Dunbar, with a face
like Tiberius.
The accepted theory OF her guilt ,is
aisproyed by q photograph made BY
ssdoW GAS dsspin shs the trasesy m Ths
shows conciusively that, as pictured. 4
man. had done the deed. The girl is
fresd and afterward 10 married to Dun
arrest. and At whose mercy she had
been. until no Ultimately frees her.
Mrs wilson received hundreds. Of
asking for corroboration Of the truth
q the eieetrican phenomena she intro
auees Many Questioned the possibil-
W, Wi, os tsii dse5 n w RS she knew vas
since been confirmed bx scientists.
A speekled Bird.
Eiftesn years elapsed this time be-
tween the tive noysis, Mrs. Wilson be-
.sg with some dificuIty persuaded 70
Era was 81 producer as n 1908. s sDscT met
with nattering success, showing that
i Iss PYLE heart yas stu true @ . her.
cal quotation; .As q speclxled bird.
the birds around about are against
her." The scenes depleted occur after
TS c0 issf q sas Slz e eptt.a
yota." appearing In 1900, . pretty little
love story, serving .aa the vehicle for
Mrs Wilson's views on several modsrn
No one sS WSs better aware than the
which her BOOKS Have We Been 's assails sH
p many s ns ssg hs q s ssSa
fss srnsa her with shield agsipst the
from men stating that her writings had
ity; while others. eminent in their pro-
fessions. declared that their first in
spiration to study was received from
An eminent critic has said: .ewho has
not read with rare delight the novels
81 Augusta Eyanse Her strange. won
derful and fascinating style; the pro-
found depths TO which she sinks the
probe into human nature. touching its
most sacred chords and springs; the
Intense interest thrown around her
liarities OF her principal figures, con-
spire to give an unusual interest to the
works Of the eminent southern author
or her literary methods, Mrs. Wilson
said, ~ never begin TO write until the
story has fully unfoldsd itself in my
mind, and could write the last chapter
slowly and revise frequently, and my
manuscripts when sent to the publisher
are free from erasures and correc-
she was systematic. both by nature
and habit. Before her marriage her
mornings were spent In sewing and her
afternoons and evenings devoted to
BtuQys AtttE ~ bAc gave LuC early
morning hours to domestic matters and
correspondence, and then until $3.50
o'clock worked. at her manuscript 1t
was an. invariable rule. that when her
husband came home at that hour her
desk was closed for the day.
Mrs. Wilson was an eminently wo-
manly woman, and was altogether OPP
posed TO the movement to invest her
sex with the right of suffrage.
y believe" she said. that the day
which endows women with elective
franchise will be the blacklist in the
annals Of this country, and will ring
the death-knell of modern civilization.
national prosperity, social morality and
domestic happiness. Every exciting po-
iitical election will then witness the
revolving deeds perpetrated by thS fu.
ries who assisted In the storming OF
the Tuilieries, ana a repetition of the
scenes enacted during the reign Of the
Paris Commune will mournfully attest
how terrible is the female nature when
perverted"
Re1aeion In the Secular Press.
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