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She began for children, and for several years she never attempted writing for others. Miller's first article for children, on the making of china, was published in 1870. Gradually, she drifted into sketches of natural history, having a fresh, vivid way of depicting the personality of bird or beast,
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She never sent anything to the press till nearly twenty years old, when she began writing short anonymous letters to the daily papers, on subjects of passing interest. At the age of twenty-three, in 1854, she married Watts Todd Miller, and added the name of Miller to her own. The couple would have
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from her early days. Exceedingly diffident, avoiding as far as she could all association with others, finding no sympathy with her peculiar tastes at home, she shrank more and more into herself, and lived more and more in her books. She was a shy, awkward, overgrown girl, with a painfully ready
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It was not till the youngest was beyond babyhood did she touch literary work again. Toward the latter part of this domestic period, she began to write an occasional letter to a paper, when feelings grew too strong for silence. It was then she assumed the name Olive Thorne, and later when the
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followed. In addition to writing on birds and their behavior, she contributed to the journal of the Audubon Society. She was a proponent of the movement to prevent hunting of birds for use of their plumes in the millinery trade. In 1901, along with
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that made it an acquaintance at once, and proved irresistible to every youngster. These early sketches, published everywhere, were collected in 1873 and made into a book which had a steady, regular sale,
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on 25 June 1831. She was the oldest of four siblings, the three brothers all being younger than herself. Her youth was passed in cities from
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pseudonym was somewhat widely known, and the possession of two names became inconvenient, she added her own married name Miller.
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When Miller was eleven years old, the Mann family was in Ohio, where she attended private schools for five years. Miller was a
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Harriet Mann was the eldest of four children born to Seth Hunt Mann, a banker, and Mary Field (Holbrook) Mann in
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blush. To write was always her ambition, though she hated school compositions and shirked them when possible.
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four children. From 1858 to 1869, she put aside writing in order to raise her children. The couple lived in
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and other magazines, was published in several volumes. The first of eleven bird-related books,
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during its first years. A year or two after she wrote her fourth and last book for children,
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Miller published articles in religious weeklies and other publications, among them
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In 1880, she became an avid bird watcher, introduced to the study of birds by
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With eight colored and twelve plain plates and twenty figures in the text.
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At Home on this Earth: Two Centuries of U.S. Women's Nature Writing
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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After the death of her husband in 1904, Miller moved to
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Little Folks in Feathers and Fur, and Others in Neither
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Little Folks in Feathers and Fur, and Others in Neither
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The Woman's Story: As Told by Twenty American Women
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Beard. 444:Queer Pets and their Doings 325:, director of the Illinois 274:, and after about 1875, in 1347: 1144:Merchant, Carolyn (2005). 1111:"Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller" 591:Little Brothers of the Air 317:Olive Thorne Miller (1889) 1193:Solomon, Geri E. (1997). 855:Ogilvie & Harvey 2000 468:Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic 154: 39: 1326:Writers from Los Angeles 1178:. Taylor & Francis. 609:A Bird-lover in the West 474:What Happened to Barbara 217:Early life and education 1306:American ornithologists 1166:Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey 914:. 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Olive Thome Miller

Auburn, New York
Los Angeles
California

pen names
ornithologist
American Ornithologists' Union
St. Nicholas Magazine
Auburn, New York
New York
Missouri
Western New York
Ohio
Wisconsin
Illinois
bookworm
Chicago
Illinois
Brooklyn
New York
pseudonym

Sara A. Hubbard
Audubon Society
Mabel Osgood Wright
Florence Merriam Bailey
Harper's Weekly
Chicago Tribune

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