American writer, born at Johnstown Center, WI. She received her education in the Windsor public schools and at the University of Wisconsin. She married Robert M. Wilcox in 1884, and after 1887 resided in New York City. She made many contributions to newspapers and magazines, besides publishing a number of books, including Drops of Water (1872); Poems of Passion (1883–94); Poems of Pleasure (1888); and the novels Was it Suicide? (1893) and A Double Life (1894).