Once wed to author Dillwyn Parrish, whom she married at age 15. They
met when he was tutoring her siblings. He was 18 years her senior. For
their honeymoon, she and her husband started out on motorcycles from
his family's home in Claymont, Delaware intending to drive across the
country to California. She was severely injured in an accident,
however, in the Southwestern region of the U.S., and, once she was
physically able, completed the remainder of the journey via
train.