Mostly self-taught and educated by her father, Hill began writing from an early age and sold her first novel, A Chatauqua Idyl, when she was 22. To begin with, her writing was for financial reasons in order to improve her family's lot. She married the Reverend Thomas Franklin Hill and moved to Philadelphia, but her husband died in 1899 and left her with two children. In 194, she remarried to Flavius Josephus Lutz, a man fifteen years her junior and the marriage ended in their separation. Throughout these times, Hill continued her prolific output, often producing three or four novels in a single year. Most of her work contains a religious theme and doesn't appeal to everyone. Nevertheless, there has been an upturn of interest in her work which includes In The Way (1897), The Angel of His Presence (1902), Marcia Schuyler (1908), Dawn of the Morning (1911), The Best Man (1914), The Search (1919), The City of Fire (1922), Coming Through the Rye (1926), Ladybird (1930), April Gold (1936), Partners (1940), The Sound of the Trumpet (1943), All Through the Night (1945) and Where Two Ways Met (1947). |
