Beauty Making

Author(s): Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Genre(s): Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)

Narrators: Amy Gramour, Anders V Lankford, Bruce Kachuk, David Lawrence, Newgatenovelist, Greg Giordano, J. McDougall, Lee Ann Howlett, Larry Wilson, Leonard Wilson, MaryAnn, Maria Kasper, NoelBadrian, Rosslyn Carlyle, Tina Renee D'Souza

Number of Chapters: 15

Length: 23 minutes

Language: English

Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family soon moved north of Madison. She started writing poetry at a very early age, and was well known as a poet in her own state by the time she graduated from high school.
Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone". Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death. (Summary from Wikipedia)