American authoress, born in Toledo, OH, in 1848. She removed with her parents to Coldwater, MI, and graduated from the seminary in that city in 1866. She began her literary career with periodical contributions to Eastern journals; in 1884 published a short story in Lippincott’s and later on several longer ones in the same magazine; in 1887 appeared her first novel, Love and Theology (later changed to Rachel Armstrong); in 1889, A Girl Graduate; Roger Hunt (1892). She married J. H. Woolley in 1868; and resided in Chicago, and in Geneva, IL.
