CATHERINE SINCLAIR. 1800–1864. Fourth daughter of Sir John Sinclair. Her work considered the beginning of the modern spirit. A friend of Scott. Author: Holiday House; Modern Accomplishment; Modern Society; Modern Flirtations. Reference: A Brief Tribute to C. S. (Pamphlet); D. N. B. G. P. R. JAMES. 1801–1860. Influenced by Scott and encouraged by Irving. Thackeray parodied him in Barbazure, by G. P. R. Jeames, Esq., in Novels by Eminent Hands; also in Book of Snobs (chaps. ii and xvi). Author of a long list of novels. HARRIET MARTINEAU. 1802–1876. Reference: D. N. B. MRS. MARGARET SCOTT GATTY. 1809–1873. She was forty-two before she began to publish. _Vide_ Ewing. Author: Aunt Judy Tales; Parables of Nature; 1866--_Aunt Judy Magazine_ (monthly), continued after her death, with her daughter as editor; stopped in 1885. Reference: Life in ed. Parables (Everyman’s Library); _Illustrated London News_, Oct. 18, 1873; _Athenæum_, Oct. 11, 1873, p. 464; D. N. B. ANNA SEWELL. 1820–1878. Author: Black Beauty (1877). Reference: D. N. B. CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. 1823-. Author: Heir of Redclyffe; The Kings of England; The Chaplet of Pearls. MRS. MARY LOUISA WHATELEY. 1824–1889. Went to Cairo and lived from 1861–1889, where she had a Moslem school. Wrote chiefly about Egypt. Fairy tale influence. Author: Reverses; or, the Fairfax Family. Reference: Hays’ Women of To-day; London _Times_ (March 12, 1889). MRS. DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK. 1826–1887. Pseudo-fairy tale writer. Author: Adventures of a Brownie, etc. JULIANA HORATIO EWING. 1841–1885. Reference: J. H. Ewing and Her Books, by Horatia K. T. Gatty; D. N. B. ANN FRASER TYTLER. Daughter of Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselel. Author: Leila on the Island; Leila in England; Leila at Home. II. THE AMERICAN SIDE.