xvi, 300 pages including frontispiece : illustrations plates, portraits ; 19 cm
OCLC
ocm01671109
"Twenty of these sketches were printed originally in the New York Times Saturday review of books."
Marion Harland - Bertha Runkle - Agnes Repplier - Margaret Deland - Lucas Malet - Frances Hodgson Burnett - Kate Douglas Wiggin - Mary Johnston - John Oliver Hobbes - Amelia E. Barr - Louise Chandler Moulton - Mrs. Humphrey War - Mrs. Sherwood [i.e. M.E.W. Sherwood] - Blanche Willis Howard - Harriet Prescott Spofford - A.D.T. Whitney - Margaret E. Sangster - Ruth McEnery Stuart - Mary E. Wilkins - Julia Ward Howe - Jeannette L. Gilder - Edith Wharton - Gertrude Atherton - Mary Mapes Dodge - Rebecca Harding Davis - Edith M. Thomas - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps