Ann Sophia Winterbotham Stephens (30 Mar 1810 – 20 Aug 1886 | Derby CT – Newport RI) poet, author, novelist, essayist, magazine editor and founder.

His was the deepest sorrow, for it grew out from his crime, a night-shade of the soul. Thistle

down, cast to the wind so lightly and wildly, you scarcely find a glimpse of it here, or a gleam of

it there. Love lights in two hearts. There is no sorrow for the earnest home soul that looketh up to

God in perfect faith. The brake hung low on the rifted rock, with sweet and holy dread. Around

her were such glowing colors, in masses, or floating airily through the room. Come, now,

s’posing we strike up a trade. The Morn awoke in Hidostan, and blushing, left the couch of

Night. Up went the sun; his burning rays broke o’er the stream like sparkling fire. On the

other side, there’s fair Wyoming! with wild flowers on the ruined wall and roofless homes sad

remembrance bring. Earth teems with good and evil: from her breast the rooted corn springs to

sun. Imagine something purer fair, free from stain of clay, when’er falsehood genders souls.

Stephens, Ann S. Curse of Gold, Fashion and Famine, Gold Brick, Heiress of Greenhurst: An Autobiography, High Life in New York, Mabel’s Mistake, Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter, Mary Derwent: A Tale of Wyoming and Mohawk Valleys, Myra: The Child of Adoption: A Romance of Real LIfe, Noble Woman, Nortston’s Rest, Old Countess: or the Two Proposals, Old Homestead, Phemie Frost’s Experiences, Portland Sketch Book, Reigning Belle: A Society Novel, Silent Struggles: or, The Valley RAnche, A Tale of California Life, Wives and Widows: or, The Broken Life. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 27 Sep 2023. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70134/pg70134-images.html