Mary C. Ames

Mary Clemmer Ames (aka Mrs. Edmund Hudson) (May 6, 1831 – August 18, 1884) was an American author and journalist.

Mary Clemmer was born to Abraham Clemmer and Margaret Kneale in Utica, New York. On May 7, 1851, she married The Reverend Daniel Ames, from whom she was divorced in 1874. She gained newspaper experience with the Springfield, Massachusetts Republican, the New York Press (1865), and the Brooklyn Daily Union (1869–71).

In 1871 she received $5000 for her work, the largest salary ever paid a newspaper woman up to that time. In later life she moved to Washington, D.C., where her home was a literary and social centre, and on June 19, 1883, she married Edmund Hudson, editor of the Army and Navy Register. She became best known for her "Woman's Letter from Washington", contributed for many years to the New York City Independent.

She wrote both poetry and prose, including novels. Her complete works were published at Boston (four volumes, 1885). Her works include:

• Victoire (1864)
• Eirene; or A Woman's Right (1870)
• Ten Years in Washington (1871)
• Outlines of Men, Women, and Things (1873)
• His Two Wives (1874)
• Memorials of Alice and Phœbe Cary (twenty-sixth edition, 1885)
• Poems of Life and Nature (1886)

Publications

• Hudson, Memorial Biography of Mary C. Ames (Boston, 1886)
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