Before the Mirror - Elizabeth STODDARD

Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, née Barstow was a United States poet and novelist.She is most widely known today as the author of The Morgesons (1862), her first of three novels. Her other two novels are Two Men (1865) and Temple House (1867). Stoddard was also a prolific writer of short stories, children's tales, poems, essays, travel writing, and journalism pieces. (Summary from Wikipedia)