Career
Her early newspaper experience was gained on the Springfield, Massachusetts Republican, the New York Press (1865), and the Brooklyn Daily Union (1869-1871). In 1871 she received $5000 for her work, the largest salary ever paid a newspaper woman up to that time. She became best known for her "Woman"s Letter from Washington", contributed for many years to the New York City Independent.
She wrote both poetry and prose, including novels.
Her complete works were published at Boston (four volumes, 1885). Victoire (1864)
Eirene.
Or A Woman"s Right (1870)
Ten Years in Washington (1871)
Outlines of Men, Women, and Things (1873)
Memorials of Alice and Phœbe Cary (twenty-sixth edition, 1885)
Poems of Life and Nature (1886).
