BURNHAM, Mrs. Clara Louise
<div>Clara Louise Burnham, born in Newton, Massachusetts,<span> </span><span>on May 25, </span>1854, spent her early years in New York City. However, her family moved to Chicago when Clara Louise was a young girl, and she lived most of her life there. She was the daughter of Mary Olive Woodman and popular composer George F. Root. Clara Louise, who married Walter Burnham, was a very popular novelist who also penned the lyrics to some of her father's works.<br /><br />Sometimes known as "Edith Douglas," Clara Louise wrote for<span> </span><em>Wide Awake</em><span> </span>early in her career. Her works also appeared in<span> </span><em>St. Nicholas</em><span> </span>and<span> </span><em>Youth's Companion</em>.<br /><br />Her early fiction from the 1880s was published by Chicago’s Henry A. Sumner and Company, while her later work was published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company of Boston and New York and by Grosset & Dunlap of New York. May O. Root, Clara Louise's sister, illustrated her 1884 novel<span> </span><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435009508565;view=1up;seq=13" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Dearly Bought</em></a>.</div>
<div><em><br />Literary World</em><span> </span>reviewed eight books by “Edith Douglas,” while<span> </span><em>Critic</em>, reviewed seven of her works. In addition, Clara Louise's books were noticed in<span> </span><em>Atheneum</em><span> </span>(London),<span> </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/23" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Atlantic Monthly</em></a>,<span> </span><em>Catholic World</em>,<span> </span><em>Chautauquan</em>,<span> </span><em>Dial</em>,<span> </span><em>New Orleans Daily Picayune</em>, and <em>Overland Monthly.<br /><br /></em>While she lived in Chicago, Clara Louise spent the summer months at her home, the Moorings, on Bailey Island, Maine. In 1915, she hosted actor Robert Dempster, her collaborator on an upcoming novel, at the Moorings.<br /><br />Female screen director Lois Weber adapted<span> </span><em><a href="https://archive.org/details/jewelchapterinhe00burn/page/n5/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life</a>,<span> </span></em>Clara Louise's 1903 Christian Science novel<em>,<span> </span></em>as the film<span> </span><em>Jewel</em><span> </span>in 1915 and later as<span> </span><em>A Chapter in Her Life</em><span> </span>in 1923.<br /><br />In 1926, Clara Louise was one of many women honored at a breakfast during the Woman's World Fair in Chicago. The next year, she was honored at a dinner by the Society of Midland Authors.<br /><br />Clara Louise passed away on Monday, June 20, 1927, at the Moorings. She was buried in Harmony Vale Cemetery, North Reading, Massachusetts.</div>
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DIAZ, Mrs. Abby Morton
<p><span>Abby Morton Diaz was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on November 22, 1821. </span><span>During the 1840s, Abby and some of her family members spent time at Brook Farm, the Uptopian community in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Recalling her friends hip with Abby there, Ora Gannett Sedgwick later commented: "Among these I must not omit to mention Abby Morton (Mrs. Diaz), who became very dear to me, and whose peculiar combination of liveliness and dignity, together with her beautiful singing, made her a favorite with all the members, old and new" [<a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_atlantic_1900-03_85_509/page/400/mode/2up?q=Abby+Morton+Diaz" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Atlantic Monthly,</em></a> 85 (509): 401]. </span></p>
<p><span>Abby's career included being an industrial reformer, an Anti-Slavery advocate, a teacher, a housekeeper, a social worker, and an author. She was writing fiction by her early forties and contributed to </span><a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/38" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Arena</em></a><span>, </span><a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/23" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Atlantic Monthly</em></a><span>, </span><em>Hearth and Home</em><span>, </span><a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/22" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Independent</em></a><span>, </span><em>New England Magazine</em><span>,</span><strong> </strong><em>Our Young Folks</em><span>, and</span><strong> </strong><em>Wide Awake<strong>.<br /><br /></strong></em><span>Diaz's three 1864 pieces in</span><a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/23" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em><strong> </strong>The Atlantic Monthly</em></a><span> were </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_atlantic_1864-04_13_78/page/416/mode/2up?q=Schoolmaster%5C%27s+Story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"The Schoolmaster's Story,"</a><span> </span><span class="resfieldlabel"><span> </span></span><a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_atlantic_1864-05_13_79/page/560/mode/2up">"Some Account of the Early Life of an Old Bachelor,"</a><span> and </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/sim_atlantic_1864-08_14_82/page/212/mode/2up?q=Little+Country+Girl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"The Little Country-Girl."</a></p>
<p>A popular juvenile fiction writer, she often published with James R. Osgood and Company. Her <a href="https://archive.org/details/williamhenrylett00diaz" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The William Henry Letters</em></a> was published in 1872. During the Christmas holiday of 1877, her <a href="https://archive.org/details/jimmyjohns00diazrich" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Jimmyjohns & Other Stories </em></a>received high praise from <em>The Independent:</em> "<em>The Jimmyjohns and Other Stories, </em>by the charming juvenile writer, Mrs. A. M. Diaz, is one of the very best children's books of the year." Some of her other works were: <a href="https://archive.org/details/williamhenryhisf00diaz2" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>William Henry and His Friends</em></a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/catsarabiannight00diaz" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Cats' Arabian Nights, or King Grimalkum</em></a>, and <a href="https://archive.org/details/byburytobeaconst00diaz" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Bybury to Beacon Street</em></a>, <br /><br />While writing, she also continued lecturing on topics such as <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016025/1883-12-15/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1845&sort=date&date2=1904&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=3&words=A+Diaz+M&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=%22A.+M.+Diaz%22&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=17" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Women's Work for the Millenium."</a><br /><br /><span>In 1889, Abby wrote a piece about her hometown, </span><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924080769791&view=1up&seq=11">"A Plymouth Pilgrimage,"</a><span> for </span><em>New England Magazine</em><span>. Ten years later, Diaz penned </span><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924079600098&view=1up&seq=220&skin=2021">"Antislavery Times in Plymouth"</a><span> for the same periodical.</span></p>
<p><span>Abby continued to write and publish into the new century. <a href="https://archive.org/details/flatironredcloak00diaz" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Her <em>The Flatiron and the Red Cloak; Old Times at X-Roads</em></a> was published by T. Y. Crowell % Company in 1901. She </span><span>passed away in Belmont, Massachusetts on April 1, 1904 and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</span></p>
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