Alice Duer Miller

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Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was a writer from the United States whose poetry influenced political opinion.

Her feminist verses had a direct effect on the suffrage issue, as well as her verse book The White Cliffs aided the United States in their entry into World War II.

In addition, she wrote books and screenplays.

Early life

Alice Duer Miller was born in Staten Island, New York, on July 28, 1874, to a wealthy and influential family. She grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, with her parents and two sisters. She was the niece of James Gore King Duer and Elizabeth Wilson Meads. Following the failure of Baring Bank, the family lost their fortune.

Elizabeth Wilson Meads was the daughter of Orlando Meads of Albany, New York. William Alexander Duer, president of Columbia College, was her great-grandfather. William Duer, an American lawyer, entrepreneur, and speculator from New York City, was her great-grandfather. He had served in the Continental Congress and the New York Constitution convention. He signed the United States Articles of Confederation in 1778. William Alexander, her great-great-grandfather, claimed the title of Earl of Stirling and was an American major general during the American Revolutionary War.

Miller was also a descendant of Senator Rufus King, an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He delegated Massachusetts to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts. He was also at the Constitutional Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787. Alice was educated at Barnard College in 1895, studying Mathematics and Astronomy and graduating Phi Beta Kappa. She paid for her studies by delivering books and short essays to Harper's and Scribner's magazines. Alice's Therrational Number in her award-winning thesis "Dedekind's Theoretic Number" was a hit in her class. She and her sister Caroline published a book of poems together. Miller remained close to Bernard throughout her life; she was elected as a Trustee of Bernard College in 1922.

Personal life

At Grace Church Chapel in New York City, she married Henry Wise Miller on October 5, 1899. Alice asked Henry to marry him three days after their first meeting. He was a Harvard graduate who was born in 1877, the son of Lt. Commander Jacob Miller was the first emperor of the United States.

They migrated to Costa Rica, where Henry Miller was gambleing on land speculation and rubber cultivation. In this time when they were going back and forth between New York City and Costa Rica, Henry and Alice had their first son, Denning Duer Miller. The couple's investment failed, and the family migrated back to New York City and struggled for years. Alice was the primary breadwinner for the first decade of the marriage until Henry became a top Wall Street stockbroker.

Alice Duer Miller died in 1942 and was laid to rest in Evergreen Cemetery in Morristown, New Jersey, after a long illness.

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Career

Alice wrote her entire life, but before she was a full-time writer, she worked at a girls school English composition and tutored Bernard College mathematics students. Miller became well-known as a campaigner for women's rights and was a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table and Heterodoxy (organisation). In the New York Tribune, she wrote a series of satirical poems titled and later reprinted in the collection, Are Women People? These words became a suffrage movement's catchphrase.

It reads:

"FATHER, what is a Legislature?

The people of the state have elected a representative body.

Are women people?

No, my son, criminals, lunatics, and females are not people.

Do legislators legislate for nothing?

No, they are not paid a salary; they are paid for their work.

By whom?

By the people.

Are women people?

My son, of course, is just as keen as men are." This collection was followed by Women Are People. (1917) The United States is a republic in the United States.

She began as a novelist with Come Out of the Kitchen in 1916. The tale was turned into a play and then the 1948 film Spring in Park Lane was released. She followed it with a series of other short stories, many of which were staged and (increasingly) made into films.

Many people regard her best work as verse Forsaking All Others (1933), and many consider her to be her best work. Samuel Goldwyn invited Miller to write for Hollywood in 1921. Are Parents People? One of her stories became a motion picture, such as Are Parents Really? (1925), Roberta (1935), and Irene (1940). She appeared in a number of motion picture screenplays, including Wife vs. Secretary (1936). In the very first issue of The New Yorker as an advisory editor, her name appears. She wrote successfully for a variety of genres and published forty-four books in her lifetime.

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