The Poetry of Elinor Wylie

Elinor Wiley was celebrated throughout her life for her poetry, her beauty, her personality and her rebellion against the life of a society wife that she had been groomed for. Elinor was born to a prominent family in New Jersey but endured an unhappy childhood in Pennsylvania and Washington with her lawyer father and hypochondriac mother together with siblings, one of whom was to later commit suicide. After a failed romance, Elinor quickly married but after five years ran off to England with Hor