Lurana Sheldon

Lurana W. Sheldon was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, as well as a newspaper editor. Her published work amounted to over one million words. She claimed to have earned her living in fifteen different and totally dissimilar lines of business, including bookkeeping, business management, journalism, work in a chemical laboratory, buying dry goods, and writing stories. She was a suffrage activist, and she opposed prohibition. Sheldon was the first poet in the United States to use her talents for the birth control movement. She is also remembered for her "Marion Marlowe" dime novel series. Though without funds at the beginning of her career, she met every expense that she ever incurred without once asking for an "extension of time" or credit.

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