1. Oelrichs first used the masculine pen name Michael Strange to publish her poetry in order to distance her society reputation from its sometimes erotic content, but it soon became the name under which she presented herself for the remainder of her life.
Michael Strange's interests caused a rift with her husband and they divorced in 1919.
Michael Strange continued seeing him for four years; and, after divorcing Thomas, she married Barrymore on August 5,1920.
Michael Strange was already pregnant with their only child, Diana Blanche Barrymore, who was born on March 3,1921.
Michael Strange's pseudonym was intended to separate her society family from the erotic content of the volume and its connection to her affair from Barrymore, but instead the vast popularity of the volume led to greater fame and notoriety, and her adoption of the Strange name permanently.
Michael Strange then turned her writing skills to the creation of theatrical plays including a 1921 Broadway production titled Clair de lune.
In 1921, Michael Strange was among the first to join the Lucy Stone League, an organization that fought for women to preserve their maiden names after marriage.
Michael Strange spent a great deal of time in Paris during the next few years while her husband performed abroad.
Michael Strange then joined a summer stock company in Salem, Massachusetts, and appeared in two Broadway plays in 1926 and 1927.
In 1940, Michael Strange published her autobiography, Who Tells Me True.
Michael Strange was interred with her son Robin, who had died in 1944, in the Oelrichs family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.
Robin had been buried in Indiana with his predeceased lover, but Michael Strange's will asked for his body to be moved to be with the rest of the family.