American author, born in Rockland, MA, on the 20th of August 1845; the daughter of Elias Pool, a manufacturer of that place, and of stanch Puritan stock. She received her education in the East Abington schools, with the view of becoming a teacher, but she gave up this career after one year. She spent several seasons in the South and in the Carolina mountains, but it is in her own New England that she found her truest suggestions and inspirations. After 1885 she began to write sketches for the New York journals. Her Vacation in a Buggy, published in 1887, gives her ideal of a vacation,—a companion (of her own kind), a dog, a Texan pony and a long day amid country byways. Her other books are Tenting at Stony Beach (1888); Rowney in Boston (1892); Mrs. Keats Bradford (1892); Dally (1893); Katherine North (1893); The Two Salomes (1893); Out of Step (1894); Against Human Nature (1895).
