American novelist; born at Claremont, NH, March 5; educated at Cleveland, OH, and at Madame Chegaray’s school in New York City. Upon the death of her father in 1869, she commenced writing; removed to Florida in 1873, and resided there and in other Southern states until the death of her mother in 1879, when she went to England. She was a frequent contributor to magazines, and is the author of Castle Nowhere (1875); Rodman the Keeper (1880); Anne (1882); For the Major (1883); East Angels (1886); Jupiter Lights (1889); Horace Chase (1894); Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories (1896); and Mentone, Cairo and Corfu (1896). She died, while visiting in Italy, in Venice, on the 24th of January 1894.
