literata

— Miss Munro was a literata, and passed through the various struggles of authorship—from the cold ice-touch of the commercial publisher, who sees no beauty in any MS. unless it can be freely transmuted into gold, till she gained the summit of her literary ambition, when her power as a writer was felt, acknowledged, and rewarded, and she was eventually enabled to spend her days in comfort at Oldmaidenhood, somewhere down in Devonshire.