Mary Britton Miller (6 August 1883 – 3 April 1975), best known by her pen name as Isabel Bolton, was an American poet and novelist.
)[3] Their mother's brother, James Rumrill, had married Anna Chapin and through her family, became a vice-president of the Boston-Albany Railroad.
Initially the orphaned children lived with their maternal grandmother Rebecca Rumrill in Springfield, Massachusetts, but she was in her 70s and died after two years.
The twin sisters were out in a rowboat and got caught in a current; the boat overturned and Grace drowned at the age of fourteen.
In 1943, when she was sixty, she published her first novel, In the Days of Thy Youth, in which she explored her life in the years between her parents' deaths and that of her twin sister.
[2] She adopted the pen name Isabel Bolton for her novel Do I Wake or Sleep (1946), and it received marked positive attention from noted literary critics Edmund Wilson and Diana Trilling.
These three novels, under her pen name Isabel Bolton, were republished posthumously in 1997 in a collection called New York Mosaic.
After they moved to New York in the 1920s, where her husband Edward Farrell joined a medical faculty, he became ill and died.
Their youngest brother James had some opportunities with the Chapin family and became a bank president, but he suffered a breakdown and committed suicide in 1916 at Butler Hospital, a sanitarium in Providence, Rhode Island.