“ She had been from childhood interested in temperance work, and one of her early stories, "The McAllisters," was a temperance history based on the lives of persons known to her. The National Temperance Publication Society published that book, with her full name attached, paying for the manuscript. The book was very successful. She published in rapid succession a dozen or more books, among which are "The Jeweled Serpent," "Harry the Prodigal," "The Fatal Dower," "Alice Grant," "Rose Clifton," "Woman First and Last" (in two volumes) , "Drifting and Anchored," "The Two Paths," "Hope Raymond." ”