[2][3] She also wrote stories for Harper’s Bazaar, literary sketches for Chicago Times (on staff three years), The Century, New York Evening Post, and others.

[3] She was the daughter of Hiram Horatio Giles, for twenty years a member of the Wisconsin State Board of Charities.

[4][7] She was quite distinguished as an oratorio and church singer when her health failed, and she was compelled to abandon what promised to be a successful career in music.

[7] It had a very wide sale, reaching the third edition in a few months and making its young author exceedingly popular throughout the Northwest.

She wrote many valuable articles on prison reform and ethical subjects, and belonged to the Woman's Congress committee on journalism.

[1] Ruddy's letters, poems and sketches appeared in The Nation, the Evening Post, the Home Journal, the Magazine of Poetry, and many other papers.

Her leading Sentinel articles were: "Wisconsin poetry", "Public library facetiae", "Women in charities (address before Illinois social science association)", "Miss Vim in the south", "In old Kentucky", "To the devil's swamp (Pass Christian, Mips.

)", "Hattie Tyng Griswold", "In The Wisconsin"; she wrote on Charlotte Cushman, Antoinette Blackwell, Clara Louise Kellogg, Anna Dickinson, and a leper island.

"A psychological problem", "Jealous of a crochet needle", "Her puritan prudery", and "Only a day", appeared in The Wisconsin, as did "A library romance".

[4] Ruddy died in Los Angeles on June 26, 1917,[12] and is buried at Forest Hill Cemetery, in Madison, Wisconsin.