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Eleanor Gates was born on 26 September 1875 in Shakopee,
Minnesota, southwest of Minneapolis. She later described her early life in her
novel The Biography of a Prairie Girl. Gates married another playwright,
Richard Walton Tully, in 1901 after they had both completed their studies at
the University of California, Berkeley. Gates had worked initially as a writer
for a newspaper in San Francisco, as well as writing novels. In 1907, one of
her novels was illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Her best known work was the play
The Poor Little Rich Girl, which was produced by her husband in 1913. Tully
divorced her in 1914 citing desertion, which Gates admitted.
Before Gates's divorce had been finalized, she married
another divorcé, Frederick Ferdinand Moore, in Paterson, New Jersey, in October
1914. In 1916, they separated when they both realized that they were not
legally married. At the time they both said they intended to remarry when it
could be arranged. Moore la...
