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Elinor Wylie was born Elinor Morton Hoyt in Somerville, New Jersey, into a socially prominent family.Her grandfather, Henry M. Hoyt, was a governor of Pennsylvania.Her parents were Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr., who would be United States Solicitor General from 1903 to 1909; and Anne Morton McMichael (born July 31, 1861, in Pa.).
Wylie was born Ida Alexa Ross Wylie on 16 March 1885 in Melbourne, Australia to Alexander Coghill Wylie (1852–1910) from England and Ida Millicent Ross (1855–1890), a farmer's daughter from Australia. [1] [2] I.A.R. Wylie's father, Alec Wylie of Glasgow, Scotland, was in debt much of his life and often on the move from creditors. [2]
[25] Janice's mother and sister, Isobel Wylie and Pamela Wylie Sullivan, respectively, both died within five years of the murders. Mrs. Wylie died from cancer, while Pamela from a bout of pneumonia. Despondent over the deaths of the three women in his life, Max Wylie committed suicide by gunshot in 1975 in a motel room in Fredericksburg ...
An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, "for all of its pervasiveness ... the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a ...
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey" Nominated Shared with Maurice Jarre (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics). Marsha Karlin (lyrics) The Little Ark "Come Follow, Follow Me" Nominated Shared with Fred Karlin (music). 1973: Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) The Way We Were "The Way We Were" Won First woman with multiple wins in ...
Triana was laid down on 27 December 1943, under a Maritime Commission contract, MC hull No. 2559, as the Liberty ship SS Elinor Wylie, by California Shipbuilding Corporation, Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California, for the McCormick Steamship Lines; launched on 24 January 1944; sponsored by Mrs. William O'Brien; renamed Triana on 21 May 1945; acquired by the Navy from the War Shipping ...
If you've been catching re-runs of "Father Knows Best," you've probably been wondering what Elinor Donahue is up to these days. Here to help, folks! Donahue is now 82 years old, but she was just a ...
Samuel Johnson in his Lives of the Poets also faulted the "Elegy" on similar grounds, referring to "the illaudable singularity of treating suicide with respect." A different kind of criticism, one on artistic grounds, is made by Maynard Mack in his important biography Alexander Pope: A Life.