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Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maryland on February 22nd 1892. Whilst still a child her parents had separated and finally divorced in 1904. Edna and her two sisters and mother Cora found times hard and apart from a trunk full of classic literature were living in poverty. However they were able to settle in a small house on her Mother's Aunt's property in Camden in Maine. It was here that Edna (who had a fondness to call herself Vincent) was to begin writing poetry. Despite her rebellious attitude she was published frequently in the school's literary magazine, The Megunticook. At 14 she won the St. Nicholas Gold Badge for poetry, and at 15 she had published in the popular children's magazine St. Nicholas, the Camden Herald, and the high-profile anthology Current Literature. While still at school Edna had several relationships with women as she came to terms with the woman and the artist she was becoming. Edna's fame began in 1912 when she entered her poem "e;Renascence"e; in a poetry contest in The Lyric Year. The poem was considered the best submission but awarded fourth place, the resulting publicity being somewhat of a scandal. In the immediate aftermath of the con

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Edna St Vincent Millay

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