“A deliberate art, perhaps, but as such it is a discipline and a struggle not to be too impetuously scorned.”
About Elinor Wylie
7 September 1885–16 December 1928
Elinor Wylie, born Elinor Morton Hoyt on 7 September 1885 in Somerville, New Jersey, belonged to an American generation that inherited Victorian social codes yet came of age amid modernism, women’s expanding public ambitions, war, cosmopolitan travel, and changing ideas of artistic freedom. She would become known as…