[2] Using the pen name of "Pauline Periwinkle", Miner was the founder and editor of the "Woman's Century" page of The Dallas Morning News.

She completed her student life in the public schools of that city, graduating from Battle Creek College the age of 17.

Her first poems followed shortly after and won considerable editorial notice because of the unusually good character of the verse for one so young.

[1] Her husband being connected with the Battle Creek Review and Herald publishing house, Miner was engaged as a proof-reader, and finally as a writer, editing a large share of the work on a series of children's books issued from that office.

When teaching, she sometimes wrote stories or verses to reprove faults among her pupils that she preferred to correct in an impersonal way, and folding her pages in a newspaper read seemingly a printed article, so that no one mistrusted its origin.

Still, to express herself in writing came so easily that until she was launched into it as an avocation unpremeditatedly, she had no thought herself that her ability in that direction would ever be of use, or was even worth cultivating.

[7] During her engagement with the Review and Herald she wrote for the various publications of the house, and afterward, at their solicitation, collaborated with Myrta B.

This followed the tradition of alliterative pen names used by earlier women journalists such as Jane Cunningham Croly's "Jennie June".

Some of her work was copied abroad, and one article in particular appeared in a leading German magazine, contributed by a well-known littérateur of that country, and translated as "the best specimen of pathos by recent American writers.

Competitive examinations and the awarding of prizes gave zest to the plan and rendered it not only popular, but productive of the best results.