Maurine

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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230 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2013

About the author

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet.

Her best-known work was "Poems of Passion". Her most enduring work was the poem "Solitude", which contains the lines:

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone".

Her autobiography, "The Worlds and I", was published in 1918, a year before her death.

Reviews

[Moira Colt · Rating 4 out of 5]

To be honest, I admired the poem more than I enjoyed it. It's a pretty impressive accomplishment on the part of the author. The characters are a little too "good" to feel real, they're all impossibly earnest and sweet. There are some really lovely passages with creative imagery that made it worth the read to me. The story is a bit soap opera-y but engaging, I found myself picking it back up repeatedly wanting to know what would happen to her. I also enjoyed some of the slow-paced, slice-of-life aspects of the Victorian era, like how they spend a whole day meandering trying to find water lilies for Helen's wax models of flowers.