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Katharine G. Busbey 1872 ~
Mrs. Katharine G. Busbey was born in
Brooklyn, New York. Graduated from Smith College, Northampton,
Massachusetts, in 1885. Was married in 1896, and has lived in
Washington since that date.
Her father, Horace Graves, was a lawyer;
her mother, a college president; her uncle, a college professor,
Mrs. Busbey wrote "The Letters from a New Congressman's Wife,"
published in a popular magazine. The publisher said they were
good and wanted to use her name, but she decided that they
should go anonymously to test their value, fearing these stories
would be attributed to her husband, who was in the center of the
Washington political maelstrom, and people might say she acted
only as his amanuensis. She was right. The stories were popular
and when a year later the same magazine printed a story by
Katharine G. Busbey, author of "Letters from a New Congressman's
Wife," she received many letters from all parts of the country
and many compliments from public men who had enjoyed those
letters.
In 1908 she went to England to prepare a
report for the United States Bureau of Labor on the conditions
of women in English factories, and while in London received a
proposition to write for a London publisher a book on "Home
Life in America.' That book was published in 1910, and it
received extended and favorable reviews in all the great
literary papers and the dailies. Many of the reviewers did not
know the author, but credited her with information, industry and
cleverness in handling the subject.
In the past year she has had stories in the Saturday Evening
Post, Harper's Magazine, The Sunday Magazine, Good Housekeeping,
and other magazines here and in England.
Mrs. Busbey is a college bred woman who came back to literature
after she had served her country as a mother, and is destined to
achieve a brilliant success in the literary world.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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