“ The amount of literary work that she accomplishes in a given time is wonderful. Now, and for ten years past, she has received a larger salary for her work than any other literary person in the far South, and larger than any official of her State. She became the wife, in 1S84, of Robert R. Sharkey, a Mississippi cotton planter, who is the nephew and sole male descendant of the late Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi, who was United States Senator for several terms and judge in the United States Supreme Court. ”

“ Up to that lime she had never known a want that wealth could supply, but after the first shock and her grief had suicided, she saw that a struggle for subsistence was before her. From her childhood she had written stories and poems for amusement and given many of them to the local press without thought of remuneration. ”

“ Sharkey spend their summers in their country residence, known as "Hillside," near Tangipahoa, La. Their winters are passed in their home in the sixth district of the city of New Orleans. Mrs. Sharkey has written several quite successful novels, chiefly representing life in the South, more especially the pine woods of Louisiana, hitherto an almost untrodden field in literature. ”