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Show ner bnlliani cnaractenzations and rich descriptive powers has won a lasting fame, now resides with her mother and sister at the old homestead in Tennessee, ocoupiel with literary work, and deaf to all overtures on the part of her many admirers ad-mirers looking to marriage. Gail Hamilton is too much wrapped, np in her self independence ever to give the subject of matrimony a moment's thought if taken into personal consideration, considera-tion, while Kate Field, as the great public pub-lic knows, is too much in love with journalism to believe she would be happier hap-pier as the wife of any living man. Tha Cary sisters, Phoebe and Alice, never married, 'but dwelt together all their lives, each bound up in the love of ' the other. There was a bond of close friendship existing between them and the poet, Whittier, and one of his choicest lyrics, "The Singers," refers wholly to those two gifted women. Jean Ingolow, now considerably more than 55, has never been married. She has always been devoted in a marked de-gi-eo to her mother, and while the latter lived the two dwelt together. Miss Inge-low Inge-low is much given to works of chanty, and among other beneficent acts is in the habit of giving regularly at her lovely Kensington home to th poor, old anrl young, what are known as "copyright diauers," from the proceeds of her own books. The charming novelists, Jane Austen, Mary Bussell Mitford, Charlotte Bronte, as also other women of equal celebrity in English letters, remained true to maidenhood. New York Star. J tamarrled Uterary Women. i tance Feniinore Woolson, author ,f ' Couitry Sketches" and other ic stones; Sarah Orne Jewett, who A Country Doctor" and "Deep-" "Deep-" sketches, as well as other books evrproved 80 delightful to read- dT ' Edith M- Thoma8' th9 lvrist; Grace King, author of , activie southern tale, -Monsieur j and Octave Thanet, a name veiu the personality of a western arrS" . " Jib bert Craddock. yrhothroujsh . ' 4 |