Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) was an American author and poet. She is known for writing Poems of Passion. Her most remembered poem was "Solitude," which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone." Three Women is the story of a wealthy young man named Maurice Somerville. He visits Roger, a college friend. Maurice meets and falls in love with Roger's sister's friend Mabel. Both men are in love with the same woman. Here we have a classic love triangle with all of its problems.