Alice duer miller biography
Alice duer miller biography
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Miller, Alice Duer
Born 28 July 1874, Staten Island, New York; died 22 August 1942, New York, New York
Daughter of James Gore King and Elizabeth Wilson Meads Duer; married Henry Wise Miller, 1899
Alice Duer Miller was born into a prominent New York family and spent a long, happy girlhood growing up with her two sisters on the family estate in Weehawken, New Jersey.
The idyll ended abruptly, however, when Miller's father lost the family fortune in the Baring Bank failure. Undaunted by the crisis, Miller worked her way through a mathematics program at Barnard College by selling stories to Harper's and Scribner's magazines.
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Upon her graduation in 1899, Miller married a Harvard graduate, and they set sail for Costa Rica. Here, Miller was frequently left alone while her husband traveled on business, and the stories Miller wrote during the companionless hours supported the Millers throughout their Central American stay.
Her efforts continued to be the family's main source