Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850-1919 · New York, George H. Doran company · leaf 425
It was when she was only fifteen that she first appeared in print through proseessays published in the New York Mercury. Her verses were the subject of ridiculeby its editor who trusted that she would never again attempt poetic expression. … / Crushed only temporarily, the little poet continued to bombard magazines with herverses. She grew so accustomed to respectfully declined enclosures that when FrankLeslies Magazine sent her a checlj for forty dollars, she almost had a nervous shock. After a short and not very happy term at…
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850-1919 · Poets, American · Journalists · Spiritualism
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