Elinor Wylie

Elinor Wylie was born in 1885 in Somerville, New Jersey, and grew up in Washington, where her father became solicitor general of the United States. Married in 1905, she caused a public scandal in 1910 by leaving her husband and their young son to run away to England with a married man, Horace Wylie, whom she married in 1916; her first husband took his own life in 1912. In 1923 she married the poet William Rose Benét, published four collections and four novels in seven years and died in New York in 1928, at the age of forty-three.

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• PoetryNets to Catch the WindElinor Wylie · 1921Literature