EMMA DOROTHY ELIZA NEVITTE

SOUTHWORTH (1819-1899)  , American novelist, was born in Washington, D.C., on the 26th of December 1819 . She studied in a school kept by her stepfather, Joshua L . Henshaw, and in 1840 married Frederick H . Southworth, of Utica, N.Y . After 1843 she supported herself by teaching . Her first story," The Irish Refugee, " was published in the Baltimore Saturday Visitor . Her first novel," Retribution," a serial for the National Era, published in book form in 1846, was so well received that she gave up teaching and became a regular contributor to various periodicals, especially the New York Ledger . She lived in Georgetown, D.C., until 1876, then in Yonkers, N.Y., and again in Georgetown, D.C., where she died on the 3oth of June 1899 . Her novels numbered more than sixty; some of them were translated into German, French and Spanish; in 1872 an edition of thirty-five volumes was published in Philadelphia . They include The Deserted Wife (1850) ; Mark Sutherland (1853) ; Hickory Hall (1855) ; Unknown (1874) ; Gloria (1877) ; The Trail of the Serpent 1879) ; Nearest and Dearest (1881) ; The Mother's Secret (1883); An Exile's Bride (1887); The Hidden Hand (1888); and Broken Pledges (1891) .