The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . tions, but managed to keep- upwith the average school-girl inseveral languages and branchesof science and also in music andpainting that were deemed essen-tial for the education of
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . tions, but managed to keep- upwith the average school-girl inseveral languages and branchesof science and also in music andpainting that were deemed essen-tial for the education of a youngwoman at that period. She earlybegan to write in prose and verse,but not being fortunate to strikea popular vein became discour-aged and gave up literature as apersonal ambition. But after-ward finding that the editorialverdict and popular taste donot always agree, she foundsale for several short stories andarticles entitled Industrial He-roes, Literary Salons, Pop-ular Suffrage in Literature,and some fugitive verses. In1870 she was married to Ernest Walpole Cecil, whodied in 1890. Mr. Cecil was a descendant in thefifth generation of Robert Cecil, fourth earl , England, and in the sixth generationof John Manners, duke of Rutland. In 1888 became a member of the Aryan society, aSouthern literary organization established for thepurpose of organizing the literature of the South into. ^«<f4f :^< OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 267
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