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An American journalist and author; born in Hamilton, Mass., in 1838; died there, Aug. 17, 1896. For several years she was instructor in the High School at Hartford, Conn. From 1865 to 1867 she was one of the editors of Our Young Folks. Besides numerous contributions to current literature, she has written, under the pseudonym of "Gail Hamilton": "Gala Days" (1863); "Woman's Wrongs" (1868); "The Battle of the Books" (1870); "Woman's Worth and Worthlessness" (1871); "The Insuppressible Book" (1885); "A New Atmosphere"; "Red-Letter Days"; "Country Living and Country Thinking"; "A Washington Bible Class"; "Twelve Miles from a Lemon"; and "Biography of James G. Blaine".