Show WO I I S b b e Southern Literary Women I G 0 A Short Account of the t Whitt III 0 Dun i t rt r n w u v v v vv v southern woman N to have ha TilE TIIE formed a new school In literature It one nay may judg by the pu puh she h has pretty fairly It thu lall ten years ra It I is that the majority ot of the great successes achieved liT by American women have 1411 to southerner that It was 1 the New woman oman who furnished a I Dresden china didactic literature after aUn the kind or of SAra Orne Jewett Mal Mary E O Wilkins Wilkin tOIl Rae Terl Terry Cooke And Stuart Phlp what might b have e been expected from the ot of the The ot of the south louth beCo before the war toiled not neither r did 11 they spin l l but since the swept awn away vast at fortunes with A d 1 1 I few tew shoes el ot of the pe pen many ot of theca theeo same women looking about for tor ways ot of building up or adding to th r In In Incomes comes took to th the pen for tor Others Other drifting to th the north found the energy and enthusiasm of their north northern ern slaters contagious and were filled d with ambition to accomplish some lome I In n triumph The first Int or almost the first ot of the great creat women writers ot of the new south wu was Charles Charle Egbert Craddock OilS whose stories ot of the Tennes Tennessee see He mountains were so 80 striking and so 0 powerful that critics fancied the they had discovered In her another George Eliot Then came that strange child ot of genius fives whose whoM analysis ot of tine ele emotions Inaugurated the era ern of so call called etl ed erotic fiction I Ruth McEnery Stuart with her hUe hu humorous I morou knowledge of at the plantation dInky darky climbed to tame fame with her eplen I dl did dialect Mos Stuart al although though no now n resident ot of Nw New York It II Ita I Ia I a Louisiana woman FrAnces Burnett though though English h by birth was wasso 18 I so 0 early brought to America lIy by hH her I parents parentI that she can an be clued classed as u II I I Sh She Is another woman who ho has added distinguished luster to IQ the literary history ot of the south lOuth Mrs Mr Burton Harrison ot of New e York whose novel Tb The WIll the talk of at two II a few tew years ago alfO le Is II a native nAtIe ot of Virginia and n a relative or of the s secretary ot of Jefferson Davis president of the Southern Con Confederacy Mr 1 MI Mary Virginia Ter hUM hone Marlon whose stories ha have made thousands of at young oung girls happy happ was born In Virginia Kate U UtOn Up tOn eon Clark Is a native natle ot of Camden Ala Ald Mrs Frank Leslie was tarn barn In New Or Orleans I leans Miss Grace Ornee Icing novelist and short I ItOI story writer riter It II another Louisiana wo woman 1 man who has succeeded Cod In literature I Miss IIII Kings stories ot of creole life lite are aro regarded ne as among the most I pictures of that phase ot of southern life lite I Mr II Eva Ea Wilder a young youn II I I Kentucky woman has brought out se e eoral oral notable novels nOta and wrItten many short stories II She began to white while about ten years ago An Earthly Paragon and Dianas Livery LIer are two ot of her herbest herbeet best beet known novels noels Mrs Sarah Morgan Platt born Lorn of at Lexington ly Ky is II one ot of the poets ot of the South She has pub pule a number of volumes An Rn chanted Castle being one ot of her ber latest latell Mrs Nellie Nicholl McAtee McAfee daughter ut of General Hum Humphrey Marshall ot of the tho Confederate arm army Is 18 numbered among the thc beet batt novelists of Kentucky So Sodom Sodom dom Apples Apple Wearing the Cross Crose and andA A Criminal Through Love Loo have been well urell vel Mrs Mary Iary ClArk one of at the older writers was VII IIi her day a poetess of renown She was both bom at Raleigh N C Among the old school ot of writer It must not be forgotten that one ot o othe f the most moat famous Will was Augusta Evans Emos author ot of S St Elmo and Beulah She wn was 1 a ot of Columbus 0 Oa Mu Mr Fanny Darrow ot of Charleston S C was the famous Aunt Fanny whose books for tor children made her den dento der e to the boys bo and ond girls Irl ot of halt half a century ago ogo Almost AI mOlt marvelous was the rapidity with which WI Mary so aJ thor of To 11 Have and nd to fluid h Into JAto tame lame She I Ii 1 a Virginian although Wt she now reside In Birmingham Ala Rattle Rives cousin ut of Amene Rives now thu Princess PrInce and author or of Bm Smoking Flax A Furnace of Earth II Ie a native naUvo of Ken Kentucky Kentucky tucky Elisabeth Roland now Mrs Wetmore Wet Wetmore more who made the trip around tile the World In competition with Nellie lily hat has written some clever ft fiction eis II HIland I is a native of l land and was 11 brought up on a plAntation niter Natch Miss MI Ellen Glasgow ot of whose whOle novel noel The Th Vole Voice of the People was Willa one of the notable sue suc cna of a PUt pat season on I Is another ot of the great t army ot of Virginia writers for tor In truth their name seems Mm legion lei lon Miss Molly 1011 Elliott Seawall Rnell ot of Washing ton tOil whose who new tory story Th The rl r f gl is I the tall fall cation has hAIl had the honor of 01 having her story The Sprightly Romance ot of Marsac dramatised It Its first II J Y r 1 ff r 1 d dr di e i f l r e eI I a aI ar I f V I r ri re r i e 60 QI 3 19 b t e 1 Q Q I II I a Photo L Lr attn non e tion at the National theater Washing tun on No Now G 6 wan Wal a notable affair So far tal this season It lion is one ot of throe three plays to have hap a liMIt first presentation at the National Na theater The others were Viola Ioa Allen Allens adaptation ot of In the Palace of the th Ring King and R a production Miss 1181 Seawell wa was tarn and spent her early earl life In Gloucester county Va a On the death of her father tather she removed to with her mother arid and sister and hRS has lived then the ever since Ince fa father ther Olt Mr John Tyler Seawell Sa v ell wu was a nephew and namesake or of TY TYler I ter ler Since removing to I Mill Mica has hal lost her mother and now Ih she and her sister live together In one ot of the hou houses near Dupont circle which overlook the gardens ardent or of orthe the Spanish legation Miu II Seawell rank ranke a one ot of the finest of 01 American literary a artists Her Story of Lady laJ Betty Bett Stair and Th the Love ot of the Lo 10 Lody I dy Arabella are charming pictures picture ot of high gentlewomen Throckmorton Throckmorton morton Children ut of D ant and Maid Marian tarlan dramatised for I IVok Yokes are re her other successes Several years MN a ago o on one ot of lolls Mies sketch ketch sketches IS es won the prise for the belt beat Ito Iton to n elte offered by the Nv New York Herald Ire Mr Fraser Boyle who whose contributions In prow pro and nl verse have hae Won on hr her many marlY admirers among maga sine readers I the wife of a Memphis lawyer Devil Tales TI which will b be brought out this tall fall II 15 a unique collection tion ot of stories In negro dialect retail retailing ing negro superstitions such lIch as al those thole with which the old darky mammy ot of I the plantation unc charmed and i I frightened her little chr charges The Th eto to toI I ties Iel are let III their way ar as al unique as 11 those thoa thoaI I or of Uncle and should win Mrs r Boyle Holf much mleh praise Julia Jull author ot of A Live Ember Their Dead Ded Selves etc is III the daughter ot of the late Alan AIn n Ma Magruder Ia gruder brother ot of General John U B MA Magruder ruder gruder ot of Confederate fame Her birth birthplace place WR was but while she was wall It Ill a child chilli the family moved moed to Wh Wash Washington ington where her father la law lIe II made the famous speech elch d de fending General Sickles Sickle for tor th the killing of Philip Barton H Key After th the civil war Mr Magruder moved to re reI Since the death of her father Miss Alit I I time ha has been divided between I Baltimore Washington Richmond and andI Concord In the lat last named of at I one ot of her sister live Alive MI der is I regarded as aa one ot of the most pop popI I ulcer ular story writers ot of the day women being her admirers biu 41 Sarah Elliott a grand granddaughter daughter ot of Stephen Elliott of South Carolina a daughter ot of Bishop Stephen Elliott sister ot of Bishop Hobert ot of Tex Texas and a niece of at the RIght nIT Its William Boone the first missionary bishop to China is II another of tit the de ot of the Tennessee lIr Iter best novels are Jerr Jerry The Pei Fel merel metes and John PAget the last n a astory story ot of NeW York and amI Newport Mrs Mra Martha McCulloch Williams n Tennessee woman h has also some nn tine studies or southern louthern life lICe The success lucce or of southern women In Ile tion la I whet hat might have been lIten expected from their temperament training and ancestry They The are a of the ol oil cavalier stock tock romantic and intense In feeling As 1 a their stories are remarkable for tor s swit wit warmth of coloring fluency of de and delicacy ot of literary touch With their keen Imaginations thy they 11 Ilva the ItOl story as s the they write It and hence henle the tale stands out for the reader as 18 Q a areal real happening MADOR I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I II t V I 1 I gyp Y 1 k M T 1 S Sv t tf v f e t d 1 t 1 F 4 I r 1 t 4 I l lr t t i 9 il 1 r ry rt S r s y ti C CJ t t aw r I m STRAPPED AND STITCHED AUTUMN GOVUS r |