The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-04-01
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in the world. and in addition to this, has
written a. History of Montana, which is
used in the public schools of that State.
Her writings include historical novel,
sonnets and other poems.
Among the Maine women who have
distinguished themselves in literary
way only are names which have been
familiar to us for years.
Sarah Orne Jewett has charmed many
hours by her tales of simple country lite
in little Maine village. Her father
was country doctor and his daughter
gained much of the material for her
books rs she rode about the country and
he made his professional calls.
While in schools, Harriet Prescott
Spofford of Calais wrote an essay on
Hamlet which attracted the attention of
James Wentworth Higginson who inter-
ested himself in her career. Both par
ents became helpless and she began
writing at an early age to support them.
James Russell Lowell was then the edi-
tor of the Atlantic Monthly and she
wrote much for that magazine. Some
of her books are the Amber Gods, The
Thief in the Night, and The Servant
Girl Question.
Blanche Willis Howard wrote her
book, One Summer, in old Wiscasset,
laying the scene Of the story there. She
was only 16 at the time and with the
money thus obtained, she gave her sister
musical education in Germany.
Another OF her books is Guen, story
of the fisher people OF the Breton coast.
Ella Maude Moore of Warren wrote
the poem, Rock of Ages, based on the
hymn of the same name. She was only
a school girl at the time and wrote the
poem on the inside of an old envelope,
little dreaming how long the words would
endure. In this poem, she makes US un-
derstand what Rock of Ages means to
the different classes of people, from the
careless maiden who sings the words
without giving thought to their mean
ing to the weary mother who bushes her
bate to sleep with the sacred words. In
1884, among 1000 competitors, she won
$500 prize for the best girls story for
the Youths Companion.
Frances Mace's poems are known
throughout the country.
Grace Donworth of Machias made the
world better by her Jennie Allen books
and her humorous contributions to maya
zines.
Elizabeth Pulen of Portland, reviewer
and musical critic of the Portland Daily
Press for years, has written short
stories, critiques, verses and translations
from the French and Italian, besides il
Illustrating works of fiction.
Other writer's are Fannie Hardy Eek
storm, who wrote on birds, game laws
and the Maine woods, Maude Clarke
Gay, Augusta Hale Clifford, Edna Abb
gail Foster and Kate Vannah.
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as dear as ones own and such is the case
with many who preferred the Pine Tree
State with all its hardships for at least
these but two rank above all the others
in the history of American literature:
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Kate Doug
las Wiggin. Mrs. Stowe, the wife of a
professor at Bowdoin College, used her
pen and intellect to help the slave and by
that work of her pen did much to bring
about the freedom of the black race.
College professors at that time were not
as prosperous as now and Mrs. Stowe
had to 90 her literary work in spare min
utes and some of the strongest chapter
of Uncle Toms Cabin were written with
her small children about her.
Kate Douglas Wiggin has won all
hearts by her simple, charming stories
of New England life. Perhaps the two
most popular stories from her pen are
The Birds Christmas Carol, of which
100, 900 copies were published, and Tim
othy's quest with 70, 600 copies. Three
of her books tell charming stories of the
British Isles: Penelope's Progress, a
story of Scotland, A Cathedral Courtship,
of England, and The Goose Girl of the
Emerald Isle. Her books also deal with
the West, A Summer in Canyon being
story of California.
Her work has not been entirely literary,
having founded the first free kinder
garten for poor children on the Pacific
coast. She has told one of her expert
ences in this work in her little book, The
Story of Patsy, No one can read these