Ella Sterling Mighels | |
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| Born | Ella Sterling Clark May 5, 1853 Mormon Island, California, US |
| Died | December 10, 1934 (aged 81) San Francisco, California, US |
| Resting place | Mountain View Cemetery |
| Pen name | Aurora Esmeralda |
| Occupation | California pioneer, author and literary historian |
| Language | English |
| Notable works | Wawona : an Indian story of the Northwest (1921), Book of the Ark-adian school (1928), Life and letters of a forty-niner's daughter by Aurora Esmeralda (Ella Sterling Mighels) ... (1929) |
| Notable awards | "First Literary Historian of California" |
| Spouse | Adley Cummins, Philip Verrill Mighels |
| Children | Genevieve |
| Relatives | Henry Rust Mighels, Nellie Verrill Mighels Davis |
Ella Sterling Mighels (May 5, 1853 – December 10, 1934[1]) (née: Ella Sterling Clark; during first marriage: Ella Sterling Cummins; pen name: Aurora Esmeralda)[2] was a California pioneer, author and literary historian.[3] She was born in Mormon Island, California, but grew up in the town of Aurora, Esmeralda County, Nevada, leading her to adopt the pen name, "Aurora Esmeralda". She founded the California Literature Society (1913), and was named the "First Literary Historian of California" (1919). She died in San Francisco, and is buried in Oakland, California at the Mountain View Cemetery.
- ^ "Guide to the Ella Sterling Mighels Collection". OAC, Online Archive of California. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
- ^ Egli, Ida Rae (1997). No rooms of their own: women writers of early California, 1849–1869. Heyday. pp. 261–. ISBN 978-1-890771-01-0. Retrieved February 26, 2012.
- ^ "Ella Sterling Mighels". SNAC, University of Virginia Library. Also: "Ella Sterling Mighels". Archives url. Archived from the original on December 15, 2012.