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Rh have made their mark national and, some of them, international in literature. Their names—Mrs. Collier Willcox, Mrs. Dolly Williams Kirk, Mrs. Kate Slaughter McKinney, Miss Gertrude Smith, Mrs. Abby Meguire Roach, Mrs. Emma Bell Miles, Miss Maia Pettus, Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, Mrs. Mary Ware, Miss Lafayette McLaws, Mrs. Ellen Chapeau, Mrs. Carolina Smith Mahoney and Miss Ella Howard Bryan and many others—confront us in the table of contents of the best magazines.

A large number of the writers of the most popular novels of recent times are Southern women. Among these are Miss Ellen Glasgow, Mrs. Amelia Rives Troubetzkoy, author of "The Quick and the Dead" and many other books which have a wide circulation; Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice, well known as the writer of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," "Lovey Mary" and many other tales; Mrs. Grace McGowan Cooke, Miss Margaret Prescott Montague, Mrs. Mary Finley Leonard, Mrs. Annie Booth McKinney, Miss Abbie Carter Goodloe, Mrs. George Madden Martin, and Mrs. Danske Dandridge. Mary Murfree who, under the pen-name of "Charles Egbert Craddock," has made every square mile of the mountains in her native Tennessee classic ground to writers of fiction of the higher order; Frances Courtney Baylor has done a similar service for the Blue Ridge and for many of the streams which have their sources in that range. Mrs. Howard Weedon, member of a family of slaveholders for several generations, in addition to her tales and poems on Southern subjects, is a painter of negroes, whose work has attracted wide attention. Mrs. Lucy Meachem Thurston has given us vivid glimpses of Virginia and other parts of the South Atlantic Seaboard. As an illustrator of her own and other novels, poems and sketches, Mrs. Louise Clarkson Whitelock is well known to a large circle of readers. The great-granddaughters of General Isaac