Woman of the Century/Helen Adelia Manville

MANVILLE, Mrs. Helen Adelia, poet, born in New Berlin, N. Y., 3rd August, 1839. Her father was Col. Artemus Wood. She inherited literary talent from her mother, several members of whose family won local celebrity, and who were connected with the Carys, from whom Alice and Phebe were descended, and also the house of Douglas, whose distinguished representative was Stephen. HELEN ADELIA MANVILLE. Accompanying her father as Helen Wood, she removed to the West at an early day, where she became Mrs. Manville, and has since lived in La Crosse, Wis. For many years her pen-name was "Nellie A. Mann," under which she contributed to leading periodicals. Renouncing her pen-name, she assumed her own, and in 1875 published a collection of her poems entitled, "Heart Echoes," which contains but a small portion of her verse. She has one child, Marion, a poet of decided gfts. Mother and daughter possess unusual beauty. They are both high-minded, refined and essentially feminine. Mrs. Manville's life has been one of complete self-abnegation. She is wholly devoted to family and friends, while yet doing excellent literary work.