Agnes Boulton [SEP] occupation
Agnes Boulton
Agnes Boulton (September 19, 1893 – November 25, 1968) was a British-born American pulp magazine writer in the 1910s, later the wife of Eugene O'Neill.
Life and career.
Boulton was born in 1893 in London, England, the daughter of Cecil Maud (Williams) and Edward William Boulton, an artist.
She grew up in Philadelphia and later in West Point Pleasant, New Jersey. She had married a Mr. Burton, who died prior to the meeting between O'Neill and
Agnes Boulton; they had a daughter, Barbara.
Boulton met O'Neill in the fall of 1917 in the "Golden Swan Saloon", better known as "The Hell Hole", in Greenwich Village. They married some six months later, on April 12, 1918, at Provincetown, Massachusetts.
O'Neill, at the time, was considered a promising author of one-act plays. During the first year of their marriage, he wrote "Beyond the Horizon," his first full-length, Broadway play