She took the title from a poem by Nora Perry
called Norine, and aimed to equal the success of Lucile (a drama by Edward Bulwer Lytton
which was later, after the appearance of Maurine...
Publishing
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
She wrote later that the idea for this book came to her when love-poems, which she had printed in journals but deliberately not included in Maurine, aroused strong interest and requests for copies. Jansen and McClurg
