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An American translator; born in Pennsylvania in 1830. She has made many translations of note, among them: E. Marlitt's "The Old Mamselle's Secret" (1868), "Gold Else" (1868), "The Countess Gisela" (1869), "The Little Moorland Princess" (1873), and "The Second Wife" (1874); Wilhelmine von Hillern's "Only a Girl" (1870); Hacklander's "Enchanting and Enchanted" (1871); Volkhausen's "Why Did He Not Die?\" (1871); Von Auer's "It Is the Fashion" (1872) and Fanny Lewald's "Hulda; or, The Deliverer" (1874).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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Platidiam
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