Cora Millay

The sixteen-year-old ESVM wrote a dedication to her mother of The Poetical Works of Vincent Millay.

Her mother, born Cora Buzzell , add[ed] an e for elegance to her last name when she began keeping a youthful diary. She divorced...

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.

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).

ESVM was pregnant, and ill with the pregnancy, at the time of her arrival in England in July 1922. At Shillingstone in Dorset, her mother studied medicinal herbs from a copy of...

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...

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 .

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...

Millay's mother , too, submitted poems for this contest.