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This writer from Wheeling graduated top of her class from a female seminary in 1848 and started writing for a local paper. Her most prominent story, "Life in the Iron Mills" (1861), showed the hard lives of mill workers in Wheeling. She wrote other novels about workers and the Civil War. After marrying journalist Lemuel Davis, she moved to Philadelphia and continued writing while raising three children.
She wrote about social issues such as political corruption and industrial problems for newspapers like the New York Tribune and The Independent for many years. Her last book was her autobiography, Bits of Gossip (1904).
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