Elizabeth Alden Curtis (1869 - 1939)

Elizabeth Alden Curtis Holman (c.May 1879 – 10 November 1939) was an American writer and artist who was the plaintiff in a 1914 United States Federal Court ruling on forced institutionalization (she was forced by her husband and physician). She was also a writer, publishing under various names depending on her marital status. In 1900, she's mentioned in a magazine article as an American poet working on a "thoughtful, pure, and even pleasing" version of the Rubaiyat. As "Elizabeth Curtis Brenton," she had letters that appeared in The New York Times Saturday Review of Books in 1901 and 1905.