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Martha Elizabeth Duncan Walker Cook

COOK, Martha Elizabeth Duncan Walker, author, born in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, 23 July, 1806; died in Hoboken, New Jersey, 15 September, 1874. She was a sister of Robert J. Walker, secretary of the treasury, and was educated by her father. She married at the age of eighteen Lieutenant (afterward General) William Cook. Mrs. Cook was for nearly two years, 1863-'4, editor of the "Continental Monthly," published in New York, and contributed many poems, sketches, and tales to that periodical. She was a good linguist, and translated several works from the German and French. Among these were Liszt's " Life of Chopin," translated from the French (Philadelphia, 1863); "The Undivine Comedy, and Other Poems," by Count Sigismund Krasinski, translated from the Polish through the German and French (1875); and "Life of Joan of Arc," from the German of Guido Goerres, published as a serial in the "Freeman's Journal."

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