Pioneer in Women's Olympic Competitions, Author. She is remembered as an American author and the literary editor of the newspaper, the "Chicago Herald" and the "Chicago Evening Post." Besides writing essays for the newspaper, she became a successful author with two novels: "Alexia" in 1889 and "The Beverlys: A Story of Calcutta" in 1890. In the 21st century, her books are still in print. Her career allowed her to move among the higher levels of Chicago society and having a literary salon. In 1874 she had married a wealthy merchant, Charles Patterson Abbott, and relocated to India with him. After five years, the family returned to Boston and her husband died of Bright's Disease. As a widow with three young children, she soon became the family's breadwinner. In 1893, she relocated from Boston to Chicago to be near a brother and accepting the newspaper position. Although sports competitions were not acceptable for ladies of the upper classes of society, she had become an avid golfer, as did her daughter Margaret, and son Sprague, a Harvard student. An intelligent woman, she was called by a biographer "the wittiest woman he had ever met." In 1899 she traveled to Paris, France with her daughter Margaret, who was studying art and languages. While in Paris, she did research for her new book, "A Woman's Paris: A Handbook of Every-day," which was published the next year. The second modern-day Olympics were scheduled in Paris during May to October of 1900. After reading in a newspaper about the golf competition, the two entered not knowing that these were the Olympic games. The 1900 competitions were the first games where women were allowed to compete in 5 sports: golf, croquet, tennis, sailing, and equestrian. They are the only women in United States history to compete in the same game at the same Olympics as a mother and daughter. There was a total of 22 women participating in the 1900 Olympics. Located 30 miles outside of Paris, the women's golf competition, "Prix de la ville de Compiègne," was played in 9 holes, ranging in distance from 68 yards to 230 yards. Since the competition was not labeled "the Olympics," many athletes did not know that they were actually participating in the Olympics, according to Dr. William James Mallon, a leading authority on the history of the Olympic Games. The games were called "Paris World's Fair Competition." There was no opening or closing ceremonies as there are today. For this reason, she and her daughter never really knew that they played in the Olympics. On the 4th of October, while dressed like a lady in a long dress and a huge hat, she tied at 7th place with 65 shots in the competition, but her daughter, Margaret, placed first becoming the first American woman to accomplish this honor. Golf returned once more to the Olympics in 1904, but only as a men's event. Women's golf was not included in the Olympic Games again until the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. Eventually, she moved in with daughter Margaret and her son-in-law Finely Peter Dunn and her four grandchildren. After being diagnosed with cancer, she went to Miami, Florida for a holiday, unexpectedly dying there. According to a Florida newspaper article, she was buried temporarily, while waiting for the family's arrival, at the Miami City Cemetery, yet this became her final resting place. Referred to as a "tourist," nothing was mentioned in the article about her accomplishments and only named her son-in-law, Finley Peter Dunn, the well-known author, as family.