Love Affairs Of Literary Men

by Myrtle Reed

CONTENTS John Swift Alexander Pope Samuel Johnson Lawrence Sterne William Cowper Thomas Carlyle Edgar Allan Poe Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1907

About the author

Myrtle Reed/Mrs McCullough (1874-1911) was an American author, the daughter of Elizabeth Armstrong Reed and the preacher Hiram von Reed. She sometimes wrote under the pseudonym of Olive Green. She was born in Chicago, where she graduated from the West Division High School. In 1906 she was married to James Sydney McCullough.

She wrote under her own name, but also published a series of cook books under the pseudonym of Olive Green, including What to Have for Breakfast (1905), One Thousand Simple Soups (1907) and How to Cook Fish (1908).

Myrtle was a diagnosed insomniac with prescribed sleeping drafts. She died August 17, 1911 of an overdose of sleeping powder taken with suicidal intent in her flat, called "Paradise Flat" at 5120 Kenmore Ave., Chicago, Illinois. The following day, her suicide letter, written to her maid, Annie Larsen, was published.

Reviews

[Marlena Jenkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Achingly beautiful & reminiscent of loves long gone, yet everlasting, of so many admired writers/poets. Highly recommend if the names within are favored by the potential reader.

[Felix Kyalo]

educative.instrumental.transformative..

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

✒️ Excellent. I greatly enjoyed this book from this little-known Chicago authoress.

📕Published — 1907. In the public domain.
📖 Book version.
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