Women authors of our day in their homes; personal descriptions & interviews; . ent for sufEering humanity was misspent, andshe seemed to agree with him. She probably nevercared much for dress or for shoviry was her pleasure to initiate at Newport theTown and Country Club, which became a greatboon to visitors at the City of the Sea, so devotedto amusement, gorgeous balls, and grand furnished once a fortnight some literary enter-tainment for the more quiet and reflective citizensand those who do not dance. I have seen atMrs. Howes cottage the road filled with carriag
Women authors of our day in their homes; personal descriptions & interviews; . ent for sufEering humanity was misspent, andshe seemed to agree with him. She probably nevercared much for dress or for shoviry was her pleasure to initiate at Newport theTown and Country Club, which became a greatboon to visitors at the City of the Sea, so devotedto amusement, gorgeous balls, and grand furnished once a fortnight some literary enter-tainment for the more quiet and reflective citizensand those who do not dance. I have seen atMrs. Howes cottage the road filled with carriagesand showy horses, which had brought the fashionout from the town to hear, first, Mrs. Howe herselfspeak, and then to listen to clever papers from thechoicest scholars of Boston. .[230 J yeannette L. GilderIn New Tork City BY MISS GILDER Born in Flushing, Long Island, New Tort Taken by Siege. The Autobiography of a Tomboy. Essays from Tbe Critic [Editor ofj. Representative Poems of Living Poets [Editor of J. [Editor of Tbe Critic from tlie Beginning, and still its Editor.]. XXI yeannette L,. Gilder In New York City AT ten years of age Jeannette LeonardGilder read Franklins autobiography andmade up her mind to be a printer. Thesteps to the goal have been cut out of odds andends of material that did not match, but an un-swerving and coherent purpose has fitted them sosolidly into each other that the public who grate-fully claim a large part of Miss Gilder as theirown are fain to discern a homogeneous plan in theaccidents and obstacles out of which she has wrestedthe rounded, wholesome life active among us to-day. This wholesomeness and activity are charac-teristic of the woman as well as her work. Shetakes herself simply and unaffectedly, with a mostdelightful unconsciousness that her success is any-thing more than a logical fulfilment of the laws oftemperament and heredity. Printers ink ran in our veins instead of did not choose a profession, a profession choseme—I mi
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