15 Facts About Elinor Wylie

Elinor Morton Wylie was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s.

Elinor Wylie was born Elinor Morton Hoyt in Somerville, New Jersey, into a socially prominent family.

Elinor Wylie's grandfather, Henry M Hoyt, was a governor of Pennsylvania.

Elinor Wylie was educated at Miss Baldwin's School, Mrs Flint's School, and finally Holton-Arms School.

The future Elinor Wylie became notorious, during her lifetime, for her multiple affairs and marriages.

Elinor Wylie eloped with him and they were married on December 13,1906, when she was 20.

Elinor Wylie had a son by him, Philip Simmons Hichborn, Jr.

Elinor Wylie stalked her for years, appearing wherever she was.

Elinor Wylie moved to England and fell in love with the husband of a friend, Henry de Clifford Woodhouse, to whom she wrote a series of 19 sonnets which she published privately in 1928 as Angels and Earthly Creatures.

Elinor Wylie worked as the poetry editor of Vanity Fair magazine between 1923 and 1925.

Elinor Wylie was an editor of Literary Guild, and a contributing editor of The New Republic, from 1926 through 1928.

Elinor Wylie was an "admirer of the British Romantic poets, and particularly of Shelley, to a degree that some critics have seen as abnormal".

Elinor Wylie moved to England and fell in love with the husband of a friend, Henry de Clifford Woodhouse, to whom she wrote a series of 19 sonnets which she published privately in 1928 as Angels and Earthly Creatures.

Elinor Wylie suffered from very high blood pressure all her adult life.

Elinor Wylie seldom allows her verses to grow agitated, she never permits them to remain dull.