The American author, poet, dramatist, screenwriter and suffragist and feminist, Alice Duer Miller published her verse novel, "Forsaking All Others" (1935), about a tragic love affair, and had a surprising hit with her verse novel, "The White Cliffs" (1940: later dramatised and filmed, but retaining and expanding the poems as voice-over narration, as "The White Cliffs of Dover" (1944). This told the story of a young American woman who goes to England in mid-1914, for a fortnight, falls in love with an American aristocrat, and marries him: he is killed in the last days of the First World War in 1918, and when World War II breaks out in 1939, she must decide whether or not to let her son join the army to fight for England. The story helped sway American sentiment towards helping the British, and was a best-seller. Miller’s poem-chapters were mainly traditional couplets, quatrains, and sonnets. They used several different voices, as well as letters from different characters.