“SARAH GRAND” (born Frances Elizabeth Clarke), whose novel, “The Heavenly Twins,” was one of the greatest successes of 1893, has lately devoted herself to essay writing with a special view to the education and elevation of woman. She was born in Ireland, of English parents, her father being Lieut. Edward John Bellenden Clarke, of the Royal navy. At sixteen she married a surgeon in the navy and traveled for five years in China, Japan, and other eastern countries. Among her works are “Singularly Deluded,” “Ideals,” “The Heavenly Twins,” “Our Manifold Nature,” “The Beth Book,” and “The Modern Man and Maid.”