American author, born in Gloucester County, VA. She passed the early part of her life there, but lived for some time in Washington, DC. Among her publications are L. Abnormale by “Vera Sapoukhyn,” which was for some time believed to have come from a Russian hand; an essay on The Absence of the Creative Faculty in Women (1892), that gave rise to a wide and warm discussion; Throckmorton (1890), a Virginia story; Maid Marion (1891); Midshipman Paulding (1891); Children of Destiny (1893); Paul Jones (1893); Through Thick and Thin (1894); and A Strange, Sad Comedy and The Sprightly Romance of Marsac (1896).
