Career
The 1900 games were the only Olympics in which winners received valuable artifacts instead of medals) 1900 was the first year in which women were allowed to compete in the Olympics, and these games included 11 female athletes competing in "ladylike" sports: golf, tennis and yachting. These games were apparently so poorly organized that many competitors, including Abbott, did not realize that the events they entered were part of the Olympics. Historical research did not establish that the game was on the Olympic program until after her death, so she herself never knew lieutenant
Abbott, who was living in Chicago, had traveled to Paris to study art under Edgar Degas and Auguste Rodin.
Born in Calcutta, India in 1876, in 1902, Abbott married writer Finley Peter Dunne.