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4 unusual facts about Miriam Leslie


Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

After Leslie's death in 1880, the magazine was continued by his widow, the women's suffrage campaigner Miriam Florence Leslie.

Miriam Leslie

She divorced Ephraim Squier on May 31, 1873, to marry publisher Frank Leslie.

She was the wife of Frank Leslie and the heir to his publishing business which she developed into a paying concern from a state of precarious indebtedness.

Willie Wilde

On 4 October 1891, aged 39, Willie married a wealthy widow, Mrs. Frank Leslie, (1836–1914), the owner of the Frank Leslie Publishing Co. in New York.



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