Person Detail: Elinor Wylie

General Information:
Full Name: Elinor Wylie
Biography: (1885-1928) Poet and novelist. Elinor Morton Wylie was educated at the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and the Holton Arms School, Washington, D.C., and in 1905 she eloped with Horace Wylie, to whom she was married in 1916. The Wylies were divorced in 1923 and she then married William Rose Benet, the poet and critic. Wylie's work consists of four novels and four volumes of verse. Her novels are "Jennifer Lorn" (1923), "The Venetian Glass Nephew" (1925), "The Orphan Angel" (1926), and "Mr. Hodge and Mrs. Hazard" (1928). Her poetry books are "Nets to Catch the Wind" (1921), "Black Armour" (1923), "Trivial Breath" (1928), and the posthumous "Angels and Earthly Creatures" (1929).
Author's Timeline:
1885		(Unknown) County Elinor Wylie was born in Somerville, New Jersey in 1885.
1928		New York County Elinor Wylie died in New York, New York in 1928.
?		New York County Wylie lived in New York City.

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