Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — WOMEN WRITERSAND MARRIAGE [ARTICLE]

WOMEN WRITERSAND MARRIAGE

Facts to Show that Authorship and Husbands are Not Incompatible. A writer in the Boston Jou nal is inclined to think that the paragraphers who are ambitiously trying to make young women believe that authorship is conducive to single blessedness in the case of women, are a trifle erroneous in their information. “And to prove it,” he says, “I have completed a list of the matrons and spinsters of literature which should, I think, settle the point that literature and love are not at war. I recognize that the lists are not complete, but they are sufficiently so, perhaps, to ‘point the moral and adorn the tale” MATRONS. SPISSTEBS. Mrs Humphry War!, Mary E Wilkins. Mrs Barton tfirrisuu, Mtrz Abtgi 1 Dodge, Julia Ward Howe. Sarah Orue Jewed, Frauces H Burnett. Mary G McClelland, Mr< Van Rensselaer Emma M Hooper, Cruger, Gracs King, Am liaE Barr, Juba Magruder, Mrs Lyman Abbott Susan Coolidge, Mrs Adeline D T Whit- Nora Perry, ney, Constance Fenimore Sarah K Bolton, Woolson, Elizabeth Stoddard, “Octave Thanet,” Rutn McEnerr Stuart, Viols Roseboro, “Margaret Sidney,” Marguerite Bouvet, Harriet Beecher Stowe,Frances CSpsrh iwk, Mrs Ol phant, Frances C Baylor, Olive Thorne Miller, Kate Jordan, Lucy C Lillie, Maria Parloa, Helen B Bridgman, “Ouida,” Mary J Holmes, Jeanette L Gilder, Rose H Lathrop, Mary E Bradley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Rose E Cleveland, Isabella M Alden, “Pan-Margaret Crosby, sy.” Madeline Bridges, Elizabeth Akers Allen, A.ma E Dickinson, Julie K Wethedll Kate Field, Baker, Isabel F Hapgood, Charlotte Fiske Bates, Ellen M Hutchinson, Anna C Brackett, Lucy I.arcom, Helen Campbell, “Charles Egbert CradMary H Catherwood, dock,” Elizabeth W Champ- Elizabeth P Peabody, ney, Edna Dean Proctor, Amelie Rives Chanler, Agnes Repplier, Ella Dietz Clymer, Mary J Si fiord, Jennie C Croly, (“Jen- Mollie Elliott Seawell, nie June,”) Olive Risley Seward, . Elizabeth B Custer, Edith M Thomas, ' Danske Dandridge, Ma-y Agnes Tincker, Rebecca H Davis, Mathilde Blind, Margaret Deland. Katherine P WormeMary Mapes Dodge, ley, Julis C R Dorr, Florence Earle Coates, Amanda M D >uglas, Jean Ingelow, Maude Howe Ehiott, Helen Gray Cone. Dora Reade Goodale. Frances E Wilard, Sally Pratt McLean Mary Virginia Terhune, Greene, (“Manon Harland,”) Curiis Terhune Her- Blanche Willis Howardrick Teufel, Laura C Holloway Mrs M G Van RensLangford, selaer, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Jeannette H Walworth, Harriet F Kimball, Kate Gannett Wells, Ellen Olney Kirke, Kate Douglas Wiggins, Isabel A Mallon, Annie Lee Winter, Grace D Litchfield, Celia P Wolley, Mary A Livermore, Abba Gould Woolson, Louise C Moulton, Celia Thaxter, Eliz’th Parker (“Bes- Mrs A S Walford, sie Chandler”), Margaret Bottome. Sarah M B Piatt, , Edith Sessions Tupper, Margaret J Preston, “The Dutchess,” Anna Katharine Green- Elizabeth 0 Smith, Rohlfs, Augusta E Wilson, Alice Wellington Rol- Elizabeth W Bellamy, fins, Mrs S T Rorer, Margaret E Sangster, Lucy Hamilton HoopMary J Serrano, er, MEW Sherwood, Alice T Bartram, Millicent W Shinn, Annie A Fields, May Riley Smith, Ethel McKenzie MoEmma DEN South- Kennie. worth, “John Strange WinHarriet Prescott Spof- ter," ford, Lucy Stone-Blackwell, Eliz’th Cady Stanton, Laura E Richards, Kate Upson Clark, Mary Hallock Foote. Fanny Crosby. “And then it must not be forgotten that many of those now relegated to the column of ‘spinsters’ are by no means beyond the marriageable age.”