[1] Her parents were good friends of poet and literary critic Bayard Taylor, at whose home they met Edmund Clarence Stedman, Richard Henry Stoddard, Thomas Bailey Aldrich and other well-known poets and authors of the United States.

She was not a member of any of the women's organizations in Brooklyn, as she felt that the art work of societies from which men were excluded amounted to little.

She spoke English, French and German with fluency, and read Dutch, Italian and Latin with ease.

After much inquiry, Bloede learned that the review was written by Richard Grant White, who was greatly impressed by the quality of her work.

She used the name “Stuart Sterne” for all her works, and even after that name had become widely known, very few readers were aware that its owner was a woman.

Her biographer for American National Biography, Ann Perkins, notes that, although she was popular in her day, Bloede's work has not aged very well.