American authoress, born in Derby, CT. In 1831 she married Edward Stephens, and with him went to Portland, ME. From 1835 to 1837 she published and edited the Portland Magazine; in 1837 went to New York City and there contributed to Peterson’s Magazine and other periodicals. She established the Illustrated New Monthly and The Ladies’ World. Among her writings at that time was The Polish Boy, a poem, a favorite of declaimers. Her first novel was publised in 1854, Fashion and Famine. Among her short stories are Mary Derwent and A Story of Western Life; and among her novels, The Old Homestead (1855); Bellehood and Bondage (1873); and Phemie’s Experience (1874). She died in Newport, RI, on the 20th of August 1886.
