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The worlds and I (1918)

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850-1919 · New York, George H. Doran company · leaf 431

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But their first real home was the little New York apartment, which soonbecame a center for the most distinguished figures in the literary circlesof the period. Here is EUa Wheeler Wilcox as she looked in those intoxi-cating days of congenial society. … This is tlie gown she wore when she recited The Birth of theOpal at Mrs. Frank Leslies salon. She tells us that it washer one and only attempt at recitation in public, and that shewas convulsed with mirth when an imitation of it was givenlater.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850-1919 · Poets, American · Journalists · Spiritualism

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