Alice Duer Miller
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Alice Duer Miller was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses influenced political opinion during the American suffrage movement, and her verse novel
Miller, c. 1920
Alice Duer Miller in 1908 or 1909
Manslaughter by Alice Duer Miller
Illustration for one of Miller's suffragist poems, as published in Puck in 1915, showing women's suffrage moving east from the states in the west that had first adopted it
Daisy Bacon
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Daisy Sarah Bacon was an American pulp fiction magazine editor and writer who was best known as the editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to 1947. She moved to New York in 1917, working at several j
Alice Duer Miller
…spending part of each year away from each other, and Powers comments that it is possible it was an open marriage. Henry Miller had a long affair with Daisy Bacon. It is not known if Alice Miller was aware of her husband's infidelity, but she may have been. Powers suggests that her long poem Forsaking All Others…
Bacon, from a 1942 publication
The cover of the October 23, 1926, issue of Love Story Magazine. The artwork is by Modest Stein.
Bacon editing from her bed at home in 1942