In later life, she moved to Washington, D.C., where her home was a literary and social centre, and on June 19, 1883, she married Edmund Hudson, editor of the Army and Navy Register.

In 1685, when Louis XIV pushed his persecutions of the Huguenots past the borders of France into the very heart of Germany, the Clemmer family fled to the United States.

[2] Margaret Kneale, her mother, was a descendant of the Crains, a well-known family of the Isle of Man, who trace a direct line back to 1600.

When Ames was a young woman, Abraham Clemmer moved his family to Westfield, Massachusetts, where two brothers of his wife, one Hon.

The principal of the school, William C. Goldthwaite, took great interest in this young girl, and paid special attention to her education.

During the marriage, Ames temporarily resided in Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York and, during the American Civil War, in Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

At that time Eirene was running as a serial in Putnam's Monthly, and this vivid and graphic picture of a war event was widely copied by the press of that day, and was reproduced in Littell's Living Age, and in the London Athenaeum.

"A Woman's Letter from Washington" was significant of refined culture, strong in political characterization, and was apt to photograph pretty clearly politicians, parties, and principles for the delectation of the reading public.

That trust was fulfilled, and for the years following this date to that of his death the honoured Massachusetts Senator and Ames were warm personal friends.

[3] This work, which in its quantity and quality was enough in itself to absorb the entire time and energies of its author, was really the achievement of a crowded life, which included the society functions of the day.

Declining at first, because of the time element, she undertook the work, giving to it simply the Friday afternoon of each week, sending the chapters just as they flowed from her pen.

The story, which was unique in treatment, and which set itself like a series of pictures in the memory, was rendered a remarkable production when the circumstances under which it was written were considered.

Thinking that the horses behind which she was riding were running away, she jumped from the carriage, striking her head against the curbing, which caused a fracture of the skull.

In this phase of creative work she has made herself the interpreter of two distinct forces, the life of nature and the emotions of the human heart.

[2] Ames' home, a large, brick mansion, was located on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C.[2][4] On June 19, 1883, she married Edmund Hudson, the journalist, and they immediately went to Europe.