Career
She usually had a strong heroine figure, and her writing has been described as "genuinely American in feeling and treatment." She was a fairly popular writer of her genre during her time. Foreign example: her romance novel, The Mountain Girl, was a leading story in Ladies" Home Journal shortly after it was published. Alfred was an artist, which may have led to her portrayal of her main character"s father in The Eye of Dread as an artist.
She seems to have let her personal life affect the characters and events in her stories quite often, actually.
lieutenant is possible and likely that her childhood at the brunt of the United States Civil War effected her creation of certain stories which take place at that same time. Being of both English and prominently American ancestry, her stories, such as The Mountain Girl, seem to attempt to draw the two cultures together.
However, in 1908, Charles died. Throughout her life she was a strong Christian and a patriot.
She wrote, in total, ten works of fiction, mostly American themed and taking place in North Carolina.
She died in 1924, a resident of the town of Tryon, North Carolina. She had taken a journey shortly before her death to a convention for peace in Washington, District of Columbia
