by Naomi Lewis
with Natalie Lynn as Ella Wheeler Wilcox
'The most popular poet of either sex and of any age, read by thousands who never open Shakespeare.' So 'The Times' described Ella Wheeler Wilcox on her death in 1919. In this quest of the essential Mrs. Wilcox through her sometimes startling life and work Noami Lewis discovers the dangerous relationship of 'good' poetry and 'bad', and where, in fact, this poet's true originality lay.