Vassar College

Three years after her highschool graduation, doors suddenly opened for ESVM to go to college, although her preparation had not reached the standard generally demanded. Donors offered to support her at Vassar College (through Caroline B. Dow

At Vassar , where cross-dressing and same-sex relationships were the norm, she skilfully played off two suitors against each other in her first year, and in her second formed a pair with Elaine Ralli ...

After her semester at Barnard College , ESVM entered Vassar in fall 1913 (despite failing the entrance exams in algebra and history, though she passed geometry) to study literature and languages. She was a rebel...

ESVM now cast around for work, possibly on stage. She sent out poems to magazines, often fruitlessly. She earned a little by acting with the Provincetown Players from December 1917, building on her long experience...

Though he identified as Dutch, his mother was Irish and his father's family originally French. Millay deeply admired his first wife, Inez Milholland (a Vassar graduate, a lawyer, and a socialist, who died in 1916...

Renaissance (as it had been spelled before publication) did not win the five-hundred-dollar prize for the best poem of all; nor did it come second or third. But it received critical acclaim, and the judges'...

As a student at Vassar she published poetry and plays in the Vassar Miscellany Monthly, including her poem The Suicide—which won her a prize but which Caroline Dow had urged her to abandon...

This volume includes her poems of mourning for her Vassar friend who died in the flu epidemic of 1918-19.

In 1921 ESVM was commissioned to write a play for the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Vassar . It was performed outdoors with a large cast.

At the same time as applying for her place at Newnham, she kept her options open by applying for a lectureship at Sheffield University and a place at Vassar in New York State, as...

On October 24 1934 she was greeted with effusive press coverage in New York. At Columbia University she had been expected to give four lectures to audiences of approximately two hundred each. However...