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Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller,
known in the family as Aunt Mittie, graduated from The Richmond Female
Institute in 1860. Her first writings appeared in a Richmond paper, The
Old Dominion. This was during the period in which she was married
to her first husband, Thomas Jefferson Davis. Her first novel, Rosamond,
was published by the publishers Street
and Smith. After she married Alex Mcveigh Miller, she moved to Alderson,
West Virginia, and began construction on her home, The Cedars. [Note:
This building still exists today.] She wrote most of her works there,
for a period of fifty years, to 1930. In 1890, she signed a contract with
George Munro, publisher of The Family Papers. Her writings earned
her over $100,000 before 1910. |
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