Word: poetesses
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...Gracious Poetess...
...Poetess was very gracious...
Backstage, Elaine breezed into John's dressing room. Barrymore's (and Poetess Michael Strange's) pretty young daughter, Diana, who had hoped to guard Papa from mischief this trip, was floored. "I can't stand any more . . ." she wailed. "This...
...tempest of propriety that erected Poems of Passion, her brief affair with James Whitcomb Riley (his levity wounded her), her marriage with solid, devoted Robert Wilcox, "a gentleman in every sense of the word" (who years later confided to a fellow club member his astonishment at having found the poetess of passion a virgin...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox soon appeared in New York salons trailing her inimitable chiffons, a light-haired poetess whose eyes "had tigerish gleams when she wore her favorite topaz...