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...died in 1919. During her lifetime she had: 1) seen her Poems of Passion, published in 1883, sell 60,000 copies in two years and take its place in plush binding with The Rubaiydt of Omar Khayyam on the nation's parlor table; 2) purveyed sunshine and consolation to the multitude through syndicated articles in Hearst papers; 3) triumphantly covered the funeral of Queen Victoria for the New York American, by writing, on the spot, a poem called The Queen's Last Ride; 4) been presented as a famous American at the Court of St. James...
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