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Show NVvr Novelist. A new Richmond is about, to enter the field of fiction a Wicuu who lias heretofore here-tofore confined her public work to essay writing and dress reform. I refer to Mrs. Annie Jenness-Miller, who, I learn, has just signed a contract 'with a New York publishing house f:r her first novel. 1 suppose that Mrs. Miller is one of the hardest worked women in this country. She has not learned tho art of dictation to ;:ti amanuensis, and so, when 1 called upon her last week. I found her suft'o:'-ing suft'o:'-ing from writer's cramp. She and others like her should take a lesson from John Haiihertofi. tho author of "Helen's Babies," who told me only recently that he could dictate a novel either to a stenographer or directly to :i typewriter, or that he could write with his left hand quite a ; well as with his right, and he has on one occasion talked a whole novel of CoO.tHK) words into one of Edison's phonographs. Is there not a hint in this for our overworked literary ' men and women? Edward W. Bok.'s |