Biography
Born 1853 on Mormon Island, California as Ella Sterling Clark, first married to Adley Cummins (d. 1889), adopted pen name Aurora Esmeralda. Later married to Philip Verrill Mighels (d. 1911).
Books by Ella Stirling Mighels
Life and letters of a forty-ni
Life and letters of a forty-niner's daughter
Wawona
Literary California, poetry, prose and portraits
Fairy tale of the white man
Society and Babe Robinson, or, The streets of old San Francisco
The full glory of Diantha
San Francisco redi-vivus!
Sixty and Six
The story of the files
The little mountain princess:
The little mountain princess: a Sierra snow-plant