Mildred Wilson has written two biographies on two powerful American women of the nineteenth-century - Catharine Beecher and Lilly Martin Spencer. Emotions of the Heart is her fourth novel, the second in a series of five about the Madison family. She is an avid reader, museum buff, and traveler. As a former art teacher, her goal has been to visit every major art museum in the world. To-date, she is still working on her European list.