Life and Work
She was born as Helen Hoyt in Norwalk, Connecticut on January 22, 1887. Her father was Henry M. Hoyt, Governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1893. Her niece was the 1920s poet Elinor Wylie,
Helen Hoyt was educated at Barnard College.
At some point she married William Whittingham Lyman Jr, and so also became known either as Mrs. W.W. Lyman or Helen Hoyt Lyman.
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