After some months, she came at last to live with the school's founder and director, Nellie Cornish, who having "always wanted a daughter of my own" sometime later adopted Miramova.Cornish, Nellie C. (1964), Browne, Ellen Van Volkenburg; Beck, Edward Nordhoff, eds., Miss Aunt Nellie. The autobiography of Nellie C. Cornish, foreword by Nancy Wilson Ross, Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, p. 145. Her training at the Cornish School formed the basis of a successful theatrical career.Wilmeth, Don B. The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre. New York: Cambridge UP, 2007. 585.
