| Show A WOMAN OF BRAINS Mrs Bottas Lifelong Devotion to Literature liter-ature and Art Mrs Anne Charlotte Lynch Botto such was the full name in the announcement announce-ment of the death of Professor Vincenz Bottas wife recently re-cently in New Yorkand but very few who read it remembered that this kindly old lady was once quite noted among American authoresses author-esses She was then Charlotte Lynchand besides her poems her Paul at Athens Wasted Fount MRS BOTTA ains Webster and other works were extensively read But a new generation has risen since they were written and American authoresses have multiplied many fold Her father was one of those stanah young Irishmen who supported Lord Edward Ed-ward Fitzgerald as a result he languished four years in prison and refusing to take the oath e > f allegiance to the British government gov-ernment was ordered to leave the country He located in Bennington Vt where Charlotte was born in 1820 She received a thorough education and early displayed literary ability first producing a compilation compila-tion called the Rhode Island Book She then resided at Providence R L In 1843 she removed to New York city and pursued pur-sued a literary career till her marriago with Professor Botta in 1855 She set in motion the work which resulted re-sulted in a fund of which the interest is to be paid from time to timcfor the best essay es-say on The Condition of Woman As a contribution to this fund first projected to aid the wounded in the FrancoPrussian war she prepared an album of original sayings autographs and photographs of prominent men sketches of noted artists etc which sold for 5000 In art also she was an amateur of no meanabilities and was alwa3s an active promoter of all schemes for the higher education of wo man I |
