Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point wrote as Mrs Alex McVeigh Miller the name of her second husband The author of 80 dime novels published from 1881 to 1915 she was one of the best-known romance writers of her age Her fiction brought her wealth and fame
A native of Doswell Virginia she was educated at home and at the Richmond Female Institute from which she graduated on June 30 1868 After graduation she married Thomas Jefferson Davis and gave b...