She showed an early inclination for literary work, and at eighteen years of age, she was a contributor to the CincinnatiCommercial-Gazette. Since then, she was active in newspaper and magazine work and more ambitious ventures in book publishing. A volume of historic sketches, with the title Don't You Remember?, which dealt with early events in her home town, Columbus, and the Scioto Valley, Ohio, was successful. When her "Social and Literary Recollections of W. D. Howells" appeared in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the reviewer referred to the writer as "Mr. L. R. McCabe," her initials only being given. For some time, those initials covered her identity from those who failed to detect "only a woman" in her writing style.[6]
In 1889, in the Paris Exposition Universelle, she did her first work for the American Press Association, and her letters were favorably received from the start. Her first intention was to spend a few months abroad and then return to her home, to engage in literary work. A love of Paris and its wonderful possibilities, and a desire to become familiar with the French language, kept her there for more than a year.[6] During her visit to France, she went over the scenes of General Lafayette's life, sleeping two nights in the room where he was born at Château de Chavaniac in Auvergne. McCabe also traveled 7,000 miles (11,000 km) into Alaska, spending four months in Nome and skirting the Siberian coast.[5]
She wrote various books, among which was Don't You Remember? Historical Sketches of Ohio and Occupations and Compensations of Women (Tribune Pub. Co., N.Y.).[5][8][a]
The American Girl at College, a series of papers that originally appeared in a newspaper, gave a wide range of practical, though somewhat discursive information as to the character, work, habits, social life, studies of college life for American women. Book News Monthly (1894) commented, "The tone is a little crude and the standard immature."[11]Ardent Adrienne (1930) was a biography of Madame de La Fayette.[12]
Lecturer
Well versed in the theory and the execution of art, music and literature,[6] McCabe lectured on travel and art. She opened Ethical Lectures at St. Xavier's College, New York City, to women.[8] She served as regular staff in Public School Lecture Course of New York City. She was the second woman to lecture before the New-York Historical Society, her subject being "Madame de Lafayette, America's Half-Forgotten Friend".[5] In January 1920, she addressed the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society with a lecture on "Madame de Lafayette, America's Half-Forgotten Friend", which address was illustrated by many stereopticon slides.[13] On the occasion of commemorating the first decade of the Watterson Reading Circle, a Catholic reading circle in Columbus, Ohio, McCabe gave a lecture on "The Preaching Friars in Florentine Art".[14]
^A notice in The Writer (November 1898) mentions: "The New York Tribune offers a prize of $50 for the best design for the cover of its forthcoming publication, "Occupations of Women and Their Compensation". Further information may be had from Miss Lida R. McCabe, No. 64 Fifth avenue, New York."[9]Occupations of women and their compensation ; a compilation of essays by prominent authorities on all the leading trades and professions in America in which women have asserted their ability , with data as to the compensation afforded in each one. was published by The New York Tribune, in 1898, without mention of McCabe's role as the editor. The book's Preface states in part that the majority of these articles were printed in the Tribune of October 2, 1898.[10]
^"Pioneer Journalist of Klondyke Dies". Times Colonist. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 12 December 1938. p. 1. Retrieved 11 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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