=Elizabeth Ellet= is favorably known for her valuable work “The Women of the American Revolution,” published in 1848 in three volumes. It was followed in 1850 by the “Domestic History of the American Revolution,” designed to give an inside view into the spirit of that period, and to describe the social and domestic conditions of the colonists and their feelings during the war. =Ann Sophia Stephens=, and =Emma D. Southworth= were likewise immensely popular fiction writers during the first half of the 19th Century. So was =Maria S. Cummins=, who in “The Lamplighter” achieved a success comparable to that of Mrs. Stowe’s “Uncle Tom.” The many short stories and novels of =Mary Virginia Terhune=, who wrote under the pseudonym of Marion Harland; the romances of =Harriet Prescott Spofford=, =Miriam Coles Harris=, =Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard=, and =Adeline Whitney=, are now almost forgotten. Also the novels of =Lydia Sigourney= of Norwich, Connecticut, who holds the record of being one of the most prolific female writers in America. She produced not less than fifty-seven volumes, among them “Letters to Mothers”; “Water-Drops,” a contribution to the temperance-cause; “Pleasant Memories in Pleasant Lands”; “Pocahontas”; and “Traits of the Aborigines of America,” a descriptive poem in five cantos. =Elizabeth Stuart Phelps= enjoyed with her “Sunny Side” and other tales a phenomenal success. Her daughter, =Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward=, was in her time regarded as the greatest American woman novelist, who has most influenced the women of the United States. “The Silent Partner”; “Hedged In”; “Dr. Zay”; “The Story of Avis” as almost all other stories of the Phelps are laid in New England and exquisitely describe its nature, past, and present conditions. =Jane Goodwin Austin=, =Rose Terry Cooke=, =Annie Trumbull Slosson=, =Clara Louise Burnham=, =Alice Brown= and =Mary E. Wilkins Freeman= belong also to the woman-authors whose works deal with colonial and present-day life in the New England States. Of the woman-authors, who realized the possibilities of the romantic life and history of the early settlers and pioneers, =Mary Johnston= and =Mary Hartwell Catherwood= were the most successful. To the former we are indebted for the romances “Prisoners of Hope,” and “To Have and to Hold”; to the latter for the novels “The Lady of Fort St. John,” “The White Islander,” “Old Kaskaskia,” “Lazarre” and others. Under the pen name of Charles Egbert Craddock =Mary Noailles Murfree= published a series of highly interesting short stories “In the Tennessee Mountains.” Displaying an intimate knowledge of the mountaineers of Eastern Tennessee, and full of life, these stories attracted at once wide attention. They were followed later on by a large number of other novels, of which “The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains,” “In the Clouds,” “The Frontiersmen” and “The Storm Centre” have secured to Miss Murfree a place of honor among present-day writers.