Disliking publicity, she wrote constantly under a great number of nom de plumes, adopting a new one when she began to be identified.

[2] In 1901, she began to use her full married name, Mrs. George Archibald Palmer, on all her books and articles in periodicals.

[7] She passed her life, except four years of childhood, in Ithaca, New York, in the Chemung River valley.

When she was ten years old, she published a poem in The Ithaca Journal,[8] which received the commendation of the editor of that newspaper.

On September 28, 1880, in Elmira, she married George Archibald Palmer (d. 1912),[9] a singer, cornet player, and choir director,[10] active in Sunday School work.

She did a large amount of work for newspapers of all sorts, and contributed to: Judge, The Youth's Companion, Harper's Bazar, Ladies' Home Journal, Delineator, and other publications.

[8] Her published works included The Summerville Prize (New York, 1890), a book for girls; A Little Brown Seed (New York, 1891); Lady Gay (Boston, 1891); Lady Gay and Her Sister (Chicago, 1892); A Dozen Good Times (1893); Three Times Three (in collaboration); Joel Dorman Steele (biography, 1900); and Verses from a Mother's Corner (Elmira, N.

[2] She served on the Press and Publicity Committee of the New York State Board of Charities, and was the General Secretary of Literature of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.