 It ranked her at once among the best of the novelists.Some of her other works included, "Golden Rod", "The Story of Helen Troy", "Woman's Handiwork in Modern Houses", "Old-Fashioned Fairy Book", "Bric-a-Brac Stories", "Flower de Hundred", "Miy Lord Fairfax of Greenway Court", "The Homes and Haunts of Washington", "The Russian Honeymoon", "Sweet Bells Out of Tune", "A Daughter of the South and Other Tales", "Bar Harbor Days", and "An edelweiss of the Sierras, Golden-rod, and other tales".Constance Fairfax Cary was born at Port Gibson, Mississippi, April 25, 1843 (or 1846) into a planter aristocrat family, to Archibald Cary and Monimia Fairfax.