Come Out of the Kitchen! by Alice Maude Duer

Come Out of the Kitchen! by Alice Maude Duer

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Born on Staten Island, New York, on July 28, 1874, Alice Maude Duer was of a wealthy and distinguished family, who, due to financial difficulties had to move in with their relative, William Denning Duer, whose estate, Hauxhurst, was located in Weehawken. She and her two sisters, Caroline and Eleanor, spent their formative years in Weehawken. The family fortune was lost in a banking failure, so Duer made her way through Barnard College by selling essays, poems, and stories to Harper's and Scribner's magazines. In 1896 her first book, entitled simply Poems, was published. In 1899, shortly after her graduation, she married Henry W. Miller, a businessman with whom she lived in Costa Rica until 1903. During that time she continued to publish magazine pieces. After the Millers returned to New York Alice Miller taught composition at a girls' school and tutored in mathematics at Barnard until 1907, while publishing The Modern Obstacle (1903), and Caldron's Prisoner (1904), the first of her many romantic novels. Thereafter she devoted herself to writing. The Blue Arch (1910), Things (1914), and Are Women People? (1915) followed. The last, a collection of satirical verses, took its title from the column she wrote for the New York Tribune from 1914 to 1917. Miller's first great success, Come Out of the Kitchen (1916), set the pattern for several subsequent novels; it was serialized in Harper's, published in book form, and then adapted for Broadway and a motion picture. She is perhaps best known for her novel in verse, THe White Cliffs (1940), which was subsequently made into a film in 1944, The White Cliffs of Dover.

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Weehawken, NJ [40.7663711,-74.02537149999999]