Joaquin Miller

While in New Orleans she soon met and became close to an important figure in her life, the celebrated poet and journalist Joaquin Miller . Miller had a colourful past and was forty-six when he...

Biographer Marian Fowler believes that Duncan resisted consummating her affair with Miller , and that she later regretted this decision. The relationship ended soon afterwards, and Miller returned to Washington.

EF 's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes , Joaquin Miller , James Russell Lowell , and Walt Whitman . She also made the acquaintance of many actors and actresses, including Henry Irving

The position of her father as a journal editor put INH in contact with several well-known authors of the time. She attended a party with her parents at the house of Dr Westland Marston ...

After reading SJD 's articles, Miller tracked her down and introduced her to people in publishing. Through Miller, SJD met other literary figures such as poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox .

The story centres around baking-powder heiress Mamie Wick from Chicago and her English suitor Charles Mafferton. Mamie rejects Mafferton to return home and marry a professor from Yale . SJD had imagined a character...