Mrs.A.B.Butler of Manhattan wrote The Trial And Condemnation of Jesus Christ From a Lawyer's Point of View;a novel,Ad Astra Per Aspera;and much newspaper work.Mrs.Elizabeth Champney,a former teacher in the Kansas State Agricultural College,is the author of more than twenty books and many short stories.Three Vassar Girls Abroad,Witch Winnie Series,Dames And Daughters of Colonial Days,Romance of French Abbeys,Romance of Italian Villas,and Romance of Imperial Rome are her most popular works.
Sadie E.Lewis,Hutchinson,is the author of Hard Times In Kansas and other verse.Her daughter,Ida Margaret Glazier,is a poet and song writer.Mrs Alice McAllily wrote Terra-Cotta and many other books.
Lillian W.Hale,Kansas City,is author of verse,short stories,and a novel.Another novel will be ready for publication this autumn.
Lois Oldham Henrici,a one-time Sabetha and Parsons woman,is the author of Representative Women and many good short stories.
Laura D.Congdon,a Newton pioneer,is a verse and short story writer.Mary H.Finn,Sedgwick,writes beautiful verse and much prose.Jennie C.Graves,Pittsburg,writes poetry and moving picture plays.Mrs.Johannas Bennett,another Pittsburg woman,has written an historical novel,La Belle San Antone.Florence L.Snow,Neosho Falls,is an artistic and finished writer of verse and prose.She is the author of The Lamp of Gold.Sharlot M.Hall,Lincoln,writes prose and verse.A volume of poems,Cactus And Pine,History of Arizona,A Woman of the Frontier,The Price of The Star and short stories are her important works.Mrs.A.S.McMillan,Lyons,a poetess,song writer and licensed preacher,writes clever verse,much of which has been set to music.Land Where Dreams Come True is her best known poem.Kittie Skidmore Cowen,a former Columbus woman,is author of An Unconditional Surrender,a civil war story.The Message of Hagar,a study of the Mormon question will be in the press soon.Miss Mary E.Upshaw,McPherson,wrote verse at the age of seven and published her first story at fifteen.She has a book in preparation which she expects to publish at an early date.Jeanette Scott Benton,formerly of Fort Scott,writes short stories novelettes,and stories for children.May Belleville Brown of Salina,has a very clever pen,as has,also Mrs.Lulu R.Fuhr of Meade,the author of Tenderfoot Tales.Mrs.E.M.Adams,Mound City,writes exquisite verse and in the past,had many short stories to her credit.Mrs.C.W.Smith,Stockton,writes both prose and verse.Cara A.Thomas Hoover,formerly of Halstead,Harvey County,now living in Rialto,California,writes prose and beautiful verse.Rose Hartwick Thorpe,the author of Curfew Shall Not Ring To-night,was a Kansan in the early sixties.She lived at Wilmington.
Miss Margaret Stevenson,Olathe,is a writer of books for the blind.She has some short stories,nature and text-books published.
Lelia Hardin Bugg,Wichita,has written The Prodigal Daughter,The People of Our Parish,and Orchids.Edna Thacher Russ,also of Wichita,writes short stories and educational articles.
Mrs.E.Hamilton Myers,Englewood,is a dramatic writer and a poet of rare talents.Being a musician,much of her verse is used for songs.
Mrs.Myers contributes to the English papers.Her first story was published by a magazine which had accepted writings of her mother's.
Other than literature proper,we have Mrs.Lillian M.Mitchner,of Topeka,a scientific writer;Mrs.Lumina C.R.Smythe,a writer of verse,also of Topeka,who is co-author with her late husband in the revised Flora And Check List of Kansas.
Among the clever newspaper women of the state are Margie Webb Tennal,Sabetha;Maud C.Thompson,Howard;Frances Garside,formerly of Atchison,now with the New York Journal;Mrs.E.E.Kelley,Toronto;Anna Carlson,Lindsborg;Mrs.Mary Riley,Kansas City;and Isabel Worrel Ball,a Larned woman,who bears the distinction of being the only woman given a seat in the congressional press gallery.Grace D.Brewer,Girard,has been a newspaper woman and magazine short story writer for ten years.
Among the early Kansas writers are Clarinda Howard Nichols,Mrs.
A.B.Bartlett,Lucy B.Armstrong,Sarah Richart,Mrs.Porter Sherman,and Mary Tenny Gray,all of Wyandotte and Mrs.C.H.Cushing of Leavenworth.
Sara T.D.Robinson,the wife of the first governor of Kansas,was one of the very first women writers of the state.Her Kansas,Interior And Exterior was published in 1856and went through ten editions up to 1889.