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Ames, Lucia True

author, was born May 5, 1856, in Boscawen, N. H. She is the author of Great Thoughts for Little Thinkers; and Memoirs of a Millionaire, a work of fiction. For many years she has conducted numerous large adult classes in Boston, giving studies in nineteenth century thought. AMES, MARY CLEMMER (Mrs. Hudson), author, was born in 1839 in Utica, N. Y. She was intimate with Alice and Phoebe Cary, whose biographies she wrote. She published monographs on Charles Sumner, Margaret Fuller, George Eliot, Emerson, and Longfellow. She wrote three novels, Victoria; Eirene; and His Two Wives; Ten Years in Washington; Outlines of Men, Women and Things; and a volume of poems. In 1883 she married Edmund Hudson, editor and proprietor of the Army and Navy Register. She died Aug. 18, 1884, in Washington, D. C.

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