Lelia Hardin Bugg, Wichita, has written "The Prodigal Daughter," "The People of Our Parish," and "Orchids." Edna Thacher Russ, also of Wichita, writes short stories and educational articles.
Mrs. E. Hamilton Myers, Englewood, is a dramatic writer and a poet of rare talents. Being a musician, much of her verse is used for songs.
Mrs. Myers contributes to the English papers. Her first story was published by a magazine which had accepted writings of her mother's.
Other than literature proper, we have Mrs. Lillian M. Mitchner, of Topeka, a scientific writer; Mrs. Lumina C. R. Smythe, a writer of verse, also of Topeka, who is co-author with her late husband in the revised "Flora And Check List of Kansas."
Among the clever newspaper women of the state are Margie Webb Tennal, Sabetha; Maud C. Thompson, Howard; Frances Garside, formerly of Atchison, now with the New York Journal; Mrs. E. E. Kelley, Toronto; Anna Carlson, Lindsborg; Mrs. Mary Riley, Kansas City; and Isabel Worrel Ball, a Larned woman, who bears the distinction of being the only woman given a seat in the congressional press gallery. Grace D. Brewer, Girard, has been a newspaper woman and magazine short story writer for ten years.
Among the early Kansas writers are Clarinda Howard Nichols, Mrs. A. B. Bartlett, Lucy B. Armstrong, Sarah Richart, Mrs. Porter Sherman, and Mary Tenny Gray, all of Wyandotte and Mrs. C. H. Cushing of Leavenworth.
Sara T. D. Robinson, the wife of the first governor of Kansas, was one of the very first women writers of the state. Her "Kansas, Interior And Exterior" was published in 1856 and went through ten editions up to 1889.
INDEX.
Adams, Mrs. E. M.
Albright, Sara Josephine
Allerton, Ellen Palmer
Aplington, Kate A.
Armstrong, Lucy B.
Arnett, Anna W.
Arnold, Anna E.
Arthur, Elizabeth Barr
Ball, Isabel Warrel
Bartlett, Mrs. A. B.
Bellman, Bessie May
Bennett, Mrs. Johannas
Benton, Jeanette Scott
Black, Eva Bland
Brewer, Grace D.
Brown, May Bellville
Bugg, Leila Hardin
Butler, Mrs. A. B.
Call, Jessie Lewellyn
Carlson, Anna
Champney, Elizabeth
Clark, Esther M.
Congdon, Laura D.
Cornelius, Mary A.
Cowen, Kittie Skidmore
Cushing, Mrs. C. H.
Don Carlos, Louise C.
Finn, Mary H.
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Fuhr, Lulu R.
Garside, Frances
Glazier, Ida Margaret
Graham, Effie
Graves, Jennie C.
Gray, Anna Deming
Gray, Mary Tenny
Hale, Lillian W.
Hall, Sharlot M.
Haywood, Edna E.
Henrici, Lois Oldham
Henthorne, June Bellman
Hoover, Cara A. Thomas
Hudson, Mary Worrell
Humphrey, Mary Vance
January, Anna L.
Jarrell, Myra Williams
Jones, Amanda T.
Kelley, Mrs. E. E.
Lewis, Sadie E.
Louthan Hattie Horner
Lynn, Margaret
McAllily, Alice
McArthur, Isabel
McCarter, Margaret Hill
McCoy, Georgiana Freeman
McMillan, Mrs. A. S.
Mitchner, Lillian W.
Murphy, Eva Morley
Myers, Mrs. E. Hamilton
Nichols, Clarinda Howard
Perkins, Margaret
Richart, Sarah
Riley, Mary
Robinson, Sara T. D.
Roby, Marjory
Roby, Sara E.
Russ, Edna Thatcher
Sherman, Mrs. Porter
Smith, Mrs. C. W.
Smythe, Lumina C. R.
Snow, Florence L.
Startzman, Mary Freeman
Stevenson, Margaret
Stockton, Cornelia M.
Tennal, Margie Webb
Thompson, Maude C.
Thorpe, Rose Hartwick
Toler, Sallie F.
Upshaw, Mary E.
Vaughn, Emma Upton
Whitcomb, Jessie Wright
Wilder, Charlotte F.
Wood, Emma Tanner