Inez Milholland - Legacy

Legacy

In a tribute to Milholland, Mount Discovery in the Adirondacks was renamed Mount Inez.

Carl Sandburg wrote a poem about her titled "Repetitions," which appears in his 1918 volume, Cornhuskers. Edna St. Vincent Millay, who married Milholland's widower Eugen Boissevain in 1923, also wrote a poem, "To Inez Milholland," included in her collection The Buck in the Snow. Julia Ormond's representation of Milholland was received with accolades in the movie Iron Jawed Angels, which received a standing ovation at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.

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