Ella Wheeler Wilcox — a remark

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“Regarding the style you speak of adopting, let your feeling come first, your style of expressing that feeling second. Say nothing merely to exhibit your style.”

Her preference for sincere feeling and substance over stylistic display · A Woman of the World, advice to a young writer

About Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

5 November 1850–30 October 1919

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born on 5 November 1850 in Johnstown Center, Wisconsin, a rural community whose fields, seasons, family routines, and wide horizons remained central to her imaginative life. She died on 30 October 1919 at her home in Short Beach, Connecticut, only days before her sixty-ninth birthday. Between…

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