Before her twelfth year she was a regular contributor, as Della E. Whitney, to several Boston and New York papers and magazines.

Norton wrote fifty-nine hymns in about ten days, which were accepted, and among eight-hundred competitors she won three first prizes.

[1] Madame Parepa Rosa, the Italian prima donna, sent her manager on a journey of five-hundred miles to request of Norton a song for concert purposes, when Norton wrote the humorous poem, "Do Not Slam the Gate" which was sung and published the world over.

[1] In spite of delicate health, she was always identified with every good work in church, society and humanitarian directions.

[1] After surgeons and physicians failed to help, her health was fixed by her faith on God as a healing power, and since then she gave her whole time to the work of healing others, and preaching the gospel of Christian Science, in private and public, as revealed to her in the Scripture, and demonstrated through the restoration of the blind and lame, the diseased and deformed, the conversion of infidels and the cure of the evil of intemperance and kindred habits.