A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

Marguerite Young (1908-1995) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and teacher. She is best known for her novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1965), which won the National Book Award for Fiction. She wrote several other novels and collections of short stories, including The Lost Traveller (1951), Angel in the Forest (1955), and The Passion of Estelle Jordan (1962). Her writing was often experimental in form and style and often focused on themes of love and death. She also wrote poetry and essays, and was a professor of English at Indiana University and later at University of Houston. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and received numerous other awards and honors.