“ At that time she published her temperance story entitled "The Present Problem" (New York, 1874) . Invited to Boston to become one of the editors of the "Congregationalist," a most useful and responsible position, she proved herself an able journalist she passed two years abroad, partly in travel and partly in study, that being her second visit to Europe. ”

“ Bolton's home is an ideal one for the lover of art and literature. Her husband is a man of wide travel and reading, and has given thirteen-hundred lectures during the past nine seasons They have but one child, a son, Charles Knowles Bolton, graduated from Harvard College in 1890, and an assistant now in the Harvard University Library. ”

“ She made a special study of woman's higher education in the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and elsewhere, preparing for magazines several articles on that subject, as well as on woman's philanthropic and intellectual work, and on what was being done for the mental and moral help of laboring people by their employers, reading a paper on that subject at a meeting of the American Social Science Association held in Saratoga in 1883. ”