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Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 - August 22, 1942) was an American writer and poet. Events 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of Treason. Year 1874 ( MDCCCLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose"

Biography

Alice Duer was born in New York, from a wealthy family. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous At the time of her entrance into society her family lost most of its fortune. She entered Barnard College in 1895 studying mathematics and astronomy (she was a brilliant mathematician). Barnard College is a women's liberal arts college founded in 1889 Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Astronomy (from the Greek words astron (ἄστρον "star" and nomos (νόμος "law" is the scientific study She helped to pay for her studies by selling novels and short essays. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story An essay is usually a short piece of writing It is often written from an author's personal point of view. She and her sister Caroline published a joint book of poems.

Alice graduated in June 1899 and shortly after married Henry Wise Miller (October 1899) and left with him for Costa Rica, where he was attempting to develop rubber cultivation. Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( Spanish: Costa Rica or República de Costa Rica,) is a Country in This attempt eventually failed; in 1903 she and her husband and young son came back to New York, where they lived for some time with difficulty, he working in the Stock Exchange, she teaching, which she hated. After a time, her husband earned more and she was able to dedicate her working time entirely to writing.

She became known as a campaigner for women's suffrage and published a brilliant series of satirical poems in the New York Tribune. The New York Tribune was an American newspaper first established by Horace Greeley in 1841 which was long considered one of the leading Newspapers in the These were published subsequently as Are Women People?. These words became a catchphrase of the suffrage movement. She followed this collection with Women are people! (1917).

As a novelist, she scored her first real success with Come out of the Kitchen in 1916. The story was made into a play and later the film Spring in Park Lane in 1948. Spring in Park Lane is a 1948 Romantic comedy Film directed by Herbert Wilcox She followed it with a series of other short novels, many of which were staged and (increasingly) made into films. At about the same time, her husband began to make money on the Exchange and their money problems were over.

Her marriage endured to the end of her life, but was not entirely tranquil. Her novel in verse Forsaking All Others (1933) about a tragic love affair, which many consider her greatest work, reflects this, though it is certainly not autobiographical.

In the 1920s and 1930s many of her stories were used for motion pictures, taking her to Hollywood. She also became involved in a number of motion picture screenplays, including Wife vs. Secretary 1936. See also Pre-production Screenwriting A screenplay or script is a written plan authored by a Screenwriter, for a Film or Television Wife vs Secretary ( 1936) is a comedy film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy The year 1936 in film involved some significant events Events Nov 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon Her name appears in the very first issue of The New Yorker as an "advisory editor". The New Yorker is an American Magazine that publishes reportage commentary criticism essays fiction satire cartoons and poetry

In 1940, she wrote the verse novel The White Cliffs. The story is of an American girl who coming to London as a tourist, meets and marries a young upper-class Englishman in the period just before the First World War. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The War begins and he goes to the front. He is killed just before the end of the War, leaving her with a young son. Her son is the heir to the family estate. Despite the pull of her own country and the impoverished condition of the estate, she decides to stay and live the traditional life of a member of the English upper class. The story concludes as The Second World War commences and she worries that her son, like his father, will be killed fighting for the country he loves. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The poem ends with the lines:

. . . I am American bred
I have seen much to hate here - much to forgive,
But in a world in which England is finished and dead,
I do not wish to live.

The poem was spectacularly successful on both sides of the Atlantic, selling eventually approaching a million copies - an unheard of number for a book of verse. It was broadcast and the story was made into a film. Like her earlier suffrage poems, it had a significant effect on American public opinion and it was one of the influences leading the United States to enter the War. Sir Walter Layton, who held positions in the Ministries of Supply and Munitions during the Second World War, even brought it to the attention of then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Alice Duer Miller died in 1942, and was interred at Evergreen Cemetery in Morristown, New Jersey. Evergreen Cemetery is a Cemetery located in Morristown, in Morris County, New Jersey. This article is about the Town of Morristown in New Jersey Other places in New Jersey with similar names are Morris Township, Morris Plains, and Moorestown

Works

The main works of Alice Duer Miller are as listed below. (e-book) marks the books that are freely available from Project Gutenberg in electronic format. Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to Digitize, archive and distribute Cultural works Links to other works on the net are also shown :

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