[1] She lived from earliest infancy to womanhood in one of the southern homesteads that lie along the Savannah river border, near Augusta, Georgia.

Her father was a successful southern punter, who cared more for blooded horses and well-trained pointers than for literary pursuits.

[6] One of her poems, "Nostri Mortui," and several idylls, which appeared in southern journals, elicited flattering mention.

[7] Of The supreme adventure (1919), W. C. Rodman with The New-Church Review wrote,— "In spite of its somewhat pedantic vocabulary, its too often inverted and sometimes stilted style, its unaccountably frequent substitution of the overworked apostrophe for the useful letter e, and its irritating derangement of lines,-triumphantly in spite of these "The Supreme Adventure" is an extraordinary performance.

The work is pure poetry, conceived in sincerity, and executed with fidelity and unquestionable skill.

[1] Twiggs died in Augusta, Georgia, February 7, 1920, and was buried in that city's Summerville Cemetery.