Mrs. William Starr Dana (1861–1952)

Her writing career, the best-selling How to Know the Wildflowers, began at age 32 three years after her 6-year marriage to William Starr Dana ended with his death. She wrote two more well-received nature books in the next three years and a fourth three years later after having married James Parsons. He died after nine years of marriage when she was 44. Forty-six years later and 52 years after her fourth book, she privately printed a memoir at age 90.
After Parson's death, she was active in New York City politics and as a supporter of women's suffrage.