Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850-1919 · New York, George H. Doran company · leaf 426
uence exertedupon her by her mother that Mrs. Wil-cox ascribes her literary career. Mychild will be a girl, declared Mrs.Wheeler; and she will be a writer. So,for months before her daughters birth,she committed to memory many books ofpoetry. Her father had moved to Wisconsin fromVermont, where he… … At this school, where little Ella studied from the time she was eight until shewas fourteen, she was regarded as a child prodigy. Composition Day, the bug-bearof most of the scholars, was to her a delight.
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850-1919 · Poets, American · Journalists · Spiritualism
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