E. J. Eames

[1] She was a regular contributor to Horace Greeley's New Yorker for some years before her marriage (under the signature of "Stella"); and thereafter, her writings frequently appeared in Graham's Magazine, the Southern Literary Messenger, and later still, in The Columbian.

[3] Elizabeth was Greeley's first love, but her father strongly opposed the match, insisting that his daughter should marry Walter S. Eames, a rich man, in preference to a poor printer.

[3] Eames' poetry especially attracted the attention of Edgar Allan Poe, who also was struck with her beauty and charm.

[6] Eames' more carefully finished poems appeared in Graham's Magazine and the Southern Literary Messenger.

[3] Rufus Wilmot Griswold, in his Female Poets of America, said of Eames:— "She writes with feeling, but she regards poetry as an art, and to the cultivation of it she brings her best powers.

He selected for publication "The Crowning of Petrarch", "The Death of Pan", "Cleopatra", the "Sonnets" to Milton, Dryden, Addison, and Tasso, and a few other of her productions.