Her mother, born Sarah Pratt
, came from Vermont and claimed to be descended from Pocahontas
.
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took her mother to live with her after her father died, but Sarah, having had a...
Education
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Perhaps most important for Ella, however, was her mother
's influence and guidance, and the reading of every magazine she could lay her hands on, together with works by Ouida
, Mary J. Holmes
...
Intertextuality and Influence
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
EWW
attributed her literary career to prenatal influences: the fact that her mother
(who was always a devotee at the shrine of literature and had access to a rich library for the first time...
