Stages in a writer's life: selected early pieces prior to 1900, post-1900 experiments with fiction, the three academic articles, and a selection of essays and reflective articles from the years of her maturity; the inconclusive autobiographical document; the Nature Notes and sketches brought forward from earlier periods to be published in "Driftwind" in her eighth decade: a perspective on the self-education of a writer, an instance of accomplishment by a hard-working, solitary figure. Writers in formation could well study her development as writer and artist.

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