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EDNA MILLAY: 20TH-CENTURY LIFE, 19TH-CENTURY ARTIST

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20010916
Author:Jane Vandenburgh

Edna St. Vincent Millay, born in 1892 in Rockland, Maine, was one of three daughters of Cora Buzzell Millay. Cora, a practical nurse who was raising them alone, recited Whittier and Longfellow to her girls and gave Edna, her eldest, a name that sounded to her like music.Called Vincent by her family, Edna Millay was still very young when fame rushed to claim her. She was tiny, very beautiful, and she took her place on the stage of public spectacle with the air of one born to it. She had a rich theatrical voice, and her musical name - it's a skipping iambic trimeter, slightly irregular, one ...

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