Cora Millay

Standard Name: Millay, Cora
Birth Name: Cora Buzzell

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Instructor Edna St Vincent Millay
ESVM said her mothergave me poetry. In her mother's Shakespeare she encountered the passage in Romeo and Juliet about Death seeking Juliet as his paramour, and she later hyperbolically described the encounter: how...
Family and Intimate relationships Edna St Vincent Millay
Millay's mother joined her for the second stage of her European travels, in Paris, England, and Cassis in the south of France. In England she used herbs and exercise to cause her daughter to miscarry.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
231-44
Health Edna St Vincent Millay
ESVM was pregnant, and ill with the pregnancy, at the time of her arrival in England in July 1922.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
233, 237
At Shillingstone in Dorset, her mother studied medicinal herbs from a copy of...
Family and Intimate relationships Edna St Vincent Millay
ESVM 's mother died unexpectedly in early February 1931, after a brief illness. They took the body to Steepletop (using a sleigh for the last stretch, when the snow got too deep for wheels).
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
322-5
Textual Production Edna St Vincent Millay
Millay's mother , too, submitted poems for this contest.
Dedications Edna St Vincent Millay
The sixteen-year-old ESVM wrote a dedication to her mother of The Poetical Works of Vincent Millay.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
39-40
Publishing Edna St Vincent Millay
Mitchell Kennerley , editor of Forum, paid ESVM twenty-five dollars for two poems, Journey and God's World. These were her first literary earnings since the St Nicholas Magazine; she sent them home to her mother .
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
98
Family and Intimate relationships Edna St Vincent Millay
Her mother, born Cora Buzzell , add[ed] an e for elegance to her last name when she began keeping a youthful diary.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
15
The American National Biography therefore spells the name Buzzelle.
She divorced...
Residence Edna St Vincent Millay
When Edna was a baby her parents moved from Rockland to the village of Union, also in Maine. After she sent her husband away, Cora Millay moved her daughters from Union to the seaside...

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