Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She also wrote pros
Millay, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933
Millay photographed by Arnold Genthe in 1914 in Mamaroneck, New York
Millay's 1923–24 home: 75+1⁄2 Bedford Street, Greenwich Village (2013 photo)
Millay, c. 1920
Boissevain family
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The Boissevain family is a Dutch patrician family of French Huguenot origin.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
…Millay "the greatest woman poet since Sappho." After experiencing his remarkable attention to her during her illness, she married 43-year-old Eugen Jan Boissevain in 1923. Boissevain was the widower of labor lawyer and war correspondent Inez Milholland, a political icon Millay had met during her time at Vassar…
The house of Willem Frederik Lamoraal Boissevain (1852–1919) in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia)