Born: 6 May 1831, United States
Died: 18 August 1884
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Mrs. Mary Clemmer, Mrs. Edmund Hudson
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Mary Clemmer Ames, an American author, best known by her Woman’s Letter from Washington, contributed for many years to the New York Independent.
In later life she removed to Washington, where her home was a literary and social centre, and in 1883 she married Edmund Hudson, editor of the Army and Navy Register. Her works include a number of novels, a volume of poems and Memorials of Alice and Phoebe Cary, of whom she had been an intimate friend.