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 hill; and somewhere in residence on those glorious heights she has since remained.

Less than a year and a half after arriving at Bellingham, she began her literary work in a serious and regular way, and, though she now lived in Washing ton, she began it in Oregon. She was invited by H. L. Wells, the editor, to conduct a department in the old Portland West Shore. Her page was started in the number of March 8, 1890, and was called "Fact and Fancy for Women." Her first article dealt with divorce and, because of its advanced sentiments and recommendations for those days, attracted a good deal of notice. Though the West Shore has been declared with much justice "the best literary weekly ever published in the Pacific Northwest," its successful days were behind it and not before it in 1890. It had been published for 15 years but did not survive much longer. After her useful experience on its staff, how ever, she began contributing verse and stories to the national magazines and during the next 25 years was probably the most popular writer in the country at large from the Pacific Northwest.

Her literary work has been as editor, short story writer, travel writer, novelist, poet and song writer. In addition to her editing for the West Shore, she later conducted for several years the literary department of the Seattle Sunday Times.

Her earliest stories appeared in the Oregon Literary Vidette, a literary publication that enjoyed a short life in Salem. Her fiction then began to appear in such magazines as McClure's, Lippincott's, Leslie's Weekly, Short Stories, and The New Peterson. In the