“ Oliver is a woman of unselfish and generous impulses. Blessed with a competency, she is always ready with time and means to do even more than her part in every good cause. She is a kindly, public-spirited woman. In the year 1889, after the death of her father, Mrs. Oliver bought and fitted up a house in Salem, where she moved in the last month of the year. ”

“ That was her first literary work, which was succeeded from time to time by contributions to the "Atlantic Monthly." "Galaxy" and "Scribner's Magazine." She was for some years a regular contributor to the Boston " Transcript " on book notices, and she wrote also for the "Daily Advertiser." In 1873 she wrote the "Life of Mrs. ”