2 Quotes & Sayings By Ella Wheeler Wilc
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born in 1849 or 1850, in North Reading, Mass. Her mother died when she was five years old, and four years later her father died when she was fifteen. At the age of twenty-one she went to New York City to seek her fortune. She became a professional writer of editorials for newspapers and magazines
During her life she wrote over six hundred articles, stories, poems, plays, novels, essays, articles on art criticism and biographies for children. She wrote under the name of Ella Wheeler because people would not be able to pronounce her real name. She was known as "the woman with many names" and "the woman with an extraordinary gift."