E. Burke Collins
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Excerpt from E. Burke Collins: One of the Foremost Writers of America, Author of "a Modern Heathen," "Tony," Etc;, Etc Conspicuous among her ancestors was the famous Capt. John Mason, whose valor saved from hostile savages the first settlers of Connecticut. In early childhood, she lost her excellent mother, who died young of consumption. The child was of a dreaming disposition, and from an early age evinced a taste for literature which was quite remarkable. Her first article was written at the age of nine. At fifteen she left school and married E. Burke Collins, a rising young lawyer of Rochester, and under his name, as a nom de plume, she still writes. Shortly afterward they sought the milder climate of Louisiana where Mrs. Collins gained perfect health. Within a year after her arrival in Louisiana, by an accident, she was suddenly made a widow, among comparative strangers, and left almost alone in the world. Up to that time she had never known a want that wealth could not supply, but after the first shock of her grief had subsided, she saw that a struggle for subsistence was before her. She decided that the pen, which had previously been a pastime, should be a weapon to keep the wolf from the door. She conceived and executed the daring scheme of starting a purely literary journal in New Orleans. It was a most unpropitious time and place for such an enterprise. She went into the composing-room and learned to set type; she attended to all the duties of the journalistic grind, she worked for victory. But a few months convinced the girl journalist that her venture would not pay, and she discontinued it before her finances were exhausted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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