Lucy Hamilton Hooper (1835-1893) came from a well-off Philadelphia merchant family and in 1854 married a successful businessman. But when her husband's business suddenly failed, she had to help support him and her children.
In her school days, she had shown promise as a poet, managing to sell poems to magazines. Later, she seriously took up writing, selling numerous articles, stories and poems, and eventually moving into role of assistant editor on magazines.
Her works include:
- "Carnivorine" (1889): A dilettante discovers that a scientist friend has bred a dangerous carnivorous plant.
- The Tsars Window
