Adele Garrison was the

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of Nana Belle Springer White (1873 in

Clinton Junction, Wisconsin Clinton is a village in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,221 at the 2020 census. The village is located within the town of Clinton. The Norwegian-American Jefferson Prairie Settlement was located near the village. G ...

– 1956), an

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. Her daily

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, a serial story called ''Revelations of a Wife'', ran in multiple American newspapers from 1915 until the Depression.

Biography

Nana Springer White was born in

. Her career included time as a schoolteacher in

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. She later worked as an editor for the ''

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'' and then a reporter and writer for the ''

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'' and the ''

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''. She had one son and one daughter. ''Revelations of a Wife'' told the story of the marital ups and downs of Margaret "Madge" Graham, an independent-minded former schoolteacher, and her husband Dicky, an artist. At the height of the story's popularity, it had one million regular readers.

References

Sources

3,000,000 Words
Time magazine, Monday, Mar. 12, 1928
Undated Wisconsin State Journal article

External links

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Revelations of a Wife: the Story of a Honeymoon
(columns from 1915 to 1917) at gutenberg, org * * 1873 births 1956 deaths American women short story writers People from Clinton, Rock County, Wisconsin Writers from Wisconsin {{US-story-writer-stub American short story writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers Pseudonymous women writers