LA Bantam Authors Part II - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In part I of this post I discussed the only author that had more than one book published by Bantam Publications, Inc. Eleanor Packer was an employee at a company owned by the  company that owned Bantam and edited six of Bantam's books.

The other 23 books Bantam published had 23 authors.

Book 15, Poems of Passion, was written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919). Wilcox was very popular in her time and isn't completely forgotten today. One of some 70 books by Wilcox, Poems of Passion was published in 1883 (Chicago: W.B. Conkey). It was her most popular work and includes "Solitude" with her most famous line:

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone."

The first edition of Poems of Passion contains 82 poems. The Bantam edition manages to reprint them all plus the four page author's preface and a new introduction.