Working at night and very fast, James De Mille wrote over twenty popular novels--"potboilers"--between 1861 and 1877. By day, he was the respected and respectable professor of rhetoric and history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, who taught his...

James De Mille was one of the most successful and prolific nineteenth-century Canadian writers of popular fiction during his relatively short writing career. He is best remembered for A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888), an...

A dancer, choreographer and writer who helped shape American dance Agnes de Mille (1905-1993), one of Broadway's best-known choreographers, is largely responsible for the development of musical theater as a distinct, and purely American, artform. Previously, dance was relegated to chorus routines interspersed...

James E. Mills, 48, a management consultant who worked for Republican presidential campaign organizations in Washington in the 1970s, died of a heart attack Dec. 5 at Suburban Hospital. A resident of the Washington area from 1971 to 1976, he returned to live...

In the following essay, MacDonald maintains that Helena's Household represents De Mille's questioning of the doctrines of the early Christian church and exploration of the many religious issues confronting him during his lifetime.

In the following excerpt from her introduction to a 2000 edition of De Mille's Elements of Rhetoric, Downey presents a broad overview of the text, discussing De Mille's comments on style, organization of subject matter, use of emotionally charged language, and genres in literature.