“If this can be said of men who have been criminals, surely humanity is not so vile as my orthodox correspondent would have me believe.”
About 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…