. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . his life. This misfortune preyed uponthe mind of her mother, and rendered her a con-firmed invalid. As Harriet was the eldest child,she felt the need of making her talents available,and began courageously to work, contributing tothe story-papers of Boston, earning small pay witha great deal of labor. She once wrote fifteen hoursa day. and continued her toil for years. These earlystories have never been acknowledged or collected,In the Atlantic Monthly. in 1859. appeared asparkling story of Parisian life, bearing the title•• In a Cellar. James Ru
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . his life. This misfortune preyed uponthe mind of her mother, and rendered her a con-firmed invalid. As Harriet was the eldest child,she felt the need of making her talents available,and began courageously to work, contributing tothe story-papers of Boston, earning small pay witha great deal of labor. She once wrote fifteen hoursa day. and continued her toil for years. These earlystories have never been acknowledged or collected,In the Atlantic Monthly. in 1859. appeared asparkling story of Parisian life, bearing the title•• In a Cellar. James Russell Lowell, then editorof the magazine, admired it. but refrained frompublishing it, under the belief that it must bea translation from the French, until he. was as-sured that it was written by Harriet story made her reputation, and she becamefrom that day a welcome contributor, both ofprose and poetry, to the chief periodicals of thecountry. Her fiction has very little in commonwith what is regarded as representative of the. / / / 634 SPOFFORD SPOONER New England mind. It is ideal, intense in feel-ing, and luxuriant in expression. In her descrip-tions and fancies she revels in sensuous delightsand every variety of splendor. In 1865 she mar-ried Richard S. Spofford, a lawyer of Boston, cousinof Henry M. Spofford, mentioned below. Theirhome is now on Deer island, in Merrimack river,in the suburbs of Newburyport. .Mrs. Spoffordsbooks are Sir Rohans Ghost (Boston, 1859):The Amber Gods, and other Stories (Boston,1863); Azarian (1864): New England Le-gends (1871); The Thief in the Night (1872);Art Decoration applied to Furniture (NewYork, 1881): Marquis of Carabas (Boston,1882): Poems (1882); Hester Stanley at (1883); The Servant-Girl Question(1884): and Ballads about Authors (1888). SPOFFORD, Henry Martyn. jurist, b. inGilmanton. N. H., 8 Sept., 1821; d. in Red Sul-phur Springs, W. Va., 20 Aug., 1880. He wasgraduated at Amherst, at the head of his class,
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