One can see that she has perfect self-confidence in her
abilities.
"The authoress is a native of Rhode Island, but by adoption a
westerner.
"Graduated from the Female College, Oxford, Ohio, when under the
control of the Rev. John Walter Scott, D.D.
"Married and lived thirteen wedded years in Covington, Kentucky. Then,
urged by her only brother, Levi L., a lawyer residing at M., Illinois,
she removed (1870) to that city. Here she engaged in arduous and
unremitting study, laboring to deserve the esteem of the gifted and
cultured people with whom she had cast her lot. With the same laudable
ambition that moves the man of business to be identified as successful
in his life career, the writer, whose only wealth is the acquisition
of knowledge and the cultivation of an inherited gift, comes before
the public in a pursuit that has ever proved the animating ally of
education and good breeding and the strong cordon of social
refinement."
Her first poem, _Mariamne, Queen of the Jews_, has a footnote which
contains this interesting, if rather incomprehensible, sentence:
"The reader must take the production with its stamp of originality,
which is the plainer synonym of afflatus or inspiration.
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