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Rh most disheartening circumstances. She collected money for a charitable society on a commission, spending her evenings in studying stenography and type writing, alter a hard day's toil. She soon started a business of her own and was successful as a court stenographer. Ten years after her release she wrote her book, "A Secret Institution," which is a history of her own life, written in the style of a novel, and descriptive of the horrors she had known, or witnessed, while an inmate of the Utica asylum. The interest her book created led to the formation of the Lunacy Law Reform League in 1889, a national organization having its headquarters in New York City, of which she was secretary and national organizer.

LATHROP, Mrs. Rose Hawthorne, poet and author, born in Lenox, Mass., 30th May, 1851. Hit mother was Mrs. Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, a native of Salem, Mass. Her father was the famous Nathaniel Hawthorne. The family is of English descent, and the name was originally spelled "Hathorne." The head of the American branch of the family was William Hathorne, of Wilton, Wiltshire, England, who emigrated with Winthrop and landed in Salem Hay, Mass., on 12th June, 1630. He had a grant of land in Dorchester and lived there until 1636. when he accepted a grant of land in Salem and made his home upon it. He served as legislator and soldier. The Hathornes became noted in every department of colonial life The daughter. Rose, early showed the Hawthorne bent towards literature. She soon became a contributor of stories, essays and poems to the "Princeton Review," "Scribner's Magazine," "St. Nicholas." "Wide Awake." the Harper periodicals and other publications. She has published several volumes of poems, "Along the Shore." and others. Her husband is George Parsons Lathrop, the author. Since her marriage her home life and literary work have absorbed her time. Mr. and Mrs. Lathrop were received into the Roman Catholic Church on 19th March, 1891, by Rev. Alfred Young, of the Paulist Fathers, in New York City, and were confirmed by Archbishop Corrigan, on 21st March.

'''LATIMER. Mrs. Elizabeth Wortneley''', author, born in London, England. 26th July, 1822. Her maiden name was Mary Elizabeth Wormeley. Her parents were Rear Admiral Ralph Randolph Wormeley, of the English Navy, and Caroline Preble, of Boston, Mass.

She was the first of the family, on her father's side, born outside of Virginia, and the first, on her mother's side, born outside of New England for nearly two-hundred years. Her grandfather, lames Wormeley, was in England during the Revolution and served as captain in Windsor in the body-guards of George III. After the Revolution he returned to Virginia, but in 1797 he went back to England, taking with him his young son, whom he placed in the English Navy. Mrs. Latimer's childhood was passed partly in Boston and partly in the Eastern counties of England. In 1836 her family moved to London, where they saw a great deal of American society. In 1839 they went abroad and spent three years in Pans, France. In 1842 Miss Wormeley spent the winter in Boston as the guest of the family of George Ticknor, and in the cultured society of that city she derived much encouragement for her fancy for literature. Her first appearance in print was in the appendix to Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico," for which she had translated an ancient Mexican poem. Returning to London, in 1843. she published her first novel and began to contribute to magazines. The family were in Paris during the revolution of 1848, were in London during the Chartist demonstration in the same year, and afterward they sailed for the United States, making their home in Boston and Newport, R. I. Admiral Wormeley died suddenly in Utica. N. Y., on his way to Niagara Falls, in 1852. On 14th June, 1856, Miss Wormeley became the wife of Randolph Brandt Latimer. For twenty years she lived principally in her school-room and nursery, and it was not till 1876 she again joined the ranks of literary workers. Her pen has been a prolific one. Her books, published in England and the United States, are numerous. Among the most popular are "Amabel" (London and New York, 1853; "Our Cousin Veronica" (New York, 1856); "Salvage" (Boston, 1880); "My Wife and My Wife's Sister" (Boston, 1881); "Princess Amelie" (Boston, 1883); "A Chain of Errors" (Philadelphia, 1890); "France in the XIXth Century" (Chicago, 1892). Her miscellaneous work includes translations, essays on Shakespeare's comedies, stories, ballads and articles for "Putnam's Magazine," "Harper's Magazine," and other standard periodicals. Mrs. Latimer is now living in Howard county, Maryland.

LAUDER, Mrs. Maria Eliae Turner, author, born in St. Armand, Province of Quebec, Canada. She is of Norman and Huguenot descent, her ancestors having escaped from France to Germany at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Her late husband, A. W. Lauder, was for several years a member of the Ontario Legislature and a prominent barrister in Toronto. She studied in Oberlin University, Ohio, as women were not then admitted to the University of Toronto. She studied theology* two years under Rev. Charles Finney, D. D., of that institution. Mrs. Lauder has traveled extensively and is a fair linguist, joining a knowledge of Latin and Greek to that of several modern languages, the latter of which she speaks fluently. She was obliged to assume the entire direction of the musical education of her