Her marriage to actor Conrad B. Clarke in December 1852 was ended by his death of
consumption in November 1859. After a few years of acting, she travelled to Europe where she obtained a position reading manuscripts for a London publisher. While in London, she was acquainted with author
Charles Reade, who encouraged her to write. On February 17, 1858, she married painter and art collector
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, more than 20 years her senior, in
Paris. They had one child, Virginia Somers Kellogg, born April 25, 1860, in
London. She became a London correspondent for several American newspapers. The Kelloggs returned to America after the Civil War and settled in Washington, D.C., where they were divorced in December 1865. Miner Kellogg retained custody of their child. Logan soon returned to London, where she returned to the stage in 1868. After acting for a few seasons, she returned to newspaper work and writing for American magazines. On December 21, 1872, she married James H. Connelly (1840-1903), a journalist, writer, and
Theosophist. Moving to
San Francisco, James became the editor of the
Morning Chronicle while Celia became a correspondent for the
New York Graphic and continued to write. While in San Francisco, Celia wrote her first plays (
Rose and
The Old Trick), which were produced with success in San Francisco and elsewhere. Returning to New York, she became an assistant editor at ''Belford's Magazine
, a project of Abram S. Piatt and his brother Donn, who had earlier employed her at the Capital
newspaper in Washington, D.C. She also continued to write, as a journalist, as an author, and as a playwright. Her most successful plays were Gaston Cadol
(an adaption from the French) and An American Marriage
(1884) (later titled That Man''). She had much success as a translator and adapter of French novels and plays. In addition to her original writing, she did much work as a translator from the French and Italian. Her first efforts in that field were made in converting American war news from English into Latin. Like her sister,
Olive, she wrote of her experiences in the theatre, writing a series of articles entitled "These Our Actors" and also lecturing on the subject. Logan was involved with the Ladies Lecture Bureau, an organization which organized lectures and events to raise awareness of and relief funds for the
Irish famine. Logan helped organize a benefit at
New York City's
Grand Opera House January 22, 1880, with
Cynthia Leonard; afterwards, the Bureau collapsed amid accusations by Logan and others that Leonard kept some of the money. Celia Logan died in New York City,
New York, June 18, 1904, of arteriosclerosis and a cerebral hemorrhage. ==Selected works==