which a man must cling to, would he avoid destruction. These brothers, so diverse in temperament, encounter and fall in love with the same woman. We close our notice of Miss Crane's production with the remark that no tale has recently appeared, North or South, which is so full of rich evidences of genuine psychological power, a profound study of character in some of its most unique spiritual and mental manifestations, and fervid artistic aspirations, destined to embody themselves gloriously in the future." In 1869, she wrote the novel Little Bopeep, which told about a young woman, who wasn't ordinary. Before the publication of her three novels, Crane wrote several short stories for the Galaxy and Putnam's Monthly. In 1873, a collection of miscellaneous essays was published posthumously. Crane's third book was Reginald Archer, published in 1871. Literary historian Arthur Habegger claimed that the protagonist of this novel, Christie Archer, was the inspiration for The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. Crane died in Stuttgart, Germany. After her death, The Nation published an obituary, expressing the hope that her immoral influence would cease and that her novels no longer be printed. This wish was fulfilled, and her novels went out of print, and soon she had disappeared from a literary record. Private life and Death Crane married Augustus Seemüller, a New York merchant, in 1869; they left Baltimore to settle in New York City. She suffered for most of her adult life from chronic hepatitis. This led her to leave New York and travel across Europe to different treatment centers in the years leading up to her death. She died at a treatment center in Germany on December 10, 1873, at the age of thirty-four. References Bibliography Attribution Further reading Judith E. Funston. "Crane, Anne Moncure" at American National Biography Online, February 2000 19th-century American novelists 1872 deaths 1838 births American women novelists American expatriates in Germany 19th-century American women writers Writers from Baltimore Novelists from Maryland