Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1914 — Did Literary Work at Night. [ARTICLE]

Did Literary Work at Night.

Mrs. Catherine Gore, who wrote 70 novels between 1824 and 1861, worked on a strange plan. When J. R. Blanche visited Paris in 1837 he found Mrs. Gore living in the Place Vendome writing novel'plays, articles for magazines —almost every description of literature flowing from her indefatigable pen.' He says: “‘How do you manage it?’ I ashed her. T receive, as you know, a few friends at dinner every evening. They leave me at 10 or 11, when I retire to my room and write till 7 or 8 in the forcing. Then I go to bed till "when 1 breakfast, after which I drive out and 'pay visits, returning at 4 to dress for dinner. As soon as my frieijs have departed I go to work all night Again.” Men are great pretenders- iomt even pretend to understand women.