ever widely distributed until the recent (2009) release of Hippocampus Press's The Outer Gate: The Collected Poems Of Nora May French. Although many of her poems celebrate the serenity of coastal landscape, others are less sanguine: they offer glimpses into the mind of a young woman torn between pressure to submit to social roles and longing to live creatively. “All sensible people will ultimately be damned,” she said, but lack of stability also plagued her. Footnotes External links Poems by Nora May French 2 short radio episodes of Nora May French's "Poems" from California Legacy Project. "The Diary of a Telephone Girl", anonymously published article by Nora May French in The Saturday Evening Post (Volume 180, Issue 2, October 19, 1907), at HathiTrust 1881 births 1907 deaths People from Aurora, Cayuga County, New York American women poets 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 19th-century American poets 19th-century American women writers People from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California 1907 suicides