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Title: Women authors of our day in their homes; personal descriptions & interviews;
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919
Subjects: Authors, American Women authors
Publisher: New York, J. Pott & Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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ll, by the way, how he once said to me of the Brother to Dragons, Miss Rives will never doanything better than this. She never did anythingquite so good. There is another story which Miss Repplier tells,somewhat at her own expense, though it also seemsto support her belief that she is not a Philadelphian.It seems that one of the first readers of her earlyessays in The Atlantic was Dr. Furness, Sr., thefather of the editor of The Variorum Shake-speare. Going to Miss Irwin, now President ofRadclifie College, Cambridge, he asked: Do youhappen to know a Boston woman who is contribut-ing to The Atlantic over the signature of AgnesRepplier ? Bless you, replied Miss Irwin, she lives at your very door. Once she was astudent in my school in Philadelphia, and she livesthere to-day. (49) Margaret Deland In Boston, Massachusetts BY MRS. DELAND Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania John Ward, Preacher. The Old Garden and Other Verses. Sidney. The Story of a Child. Philip and His Wife. Old Chester Tales.
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feo Ri s ^ IV Margaret Deland In Boston, Massachusetts IT is scarcely fifteen years since John Ward,Preacher, shook some of our theological anddomestic traditions to their centre. The powerof characterization, the gifts of dialogue and de-scription, and the knowledge of life and of how totell a story that would ordinarily have absorbed thecritic and the reader were swallowed up in thetheological dogma the book questioned, and whicha large and hysterical part of the novel-reading pub-lic insisted upon confounding with the fundamentaltruths of Christianity. The attitude of critics and readers, however, didnot prevent John Wards translation into Dutch,French, and German; or, fortunately, did not pre-vent Mrs. Deland from holding steadily to herideals of inspiration. For it is this clear and fear-less insight, and large, sympathetic tolerance unitedwith simplicity that give distinction to style whichmake her one of the most interesting and significantfigures in the American world of lette

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