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Books by gladys taber10/6/2023 ![]() In the late 1930s, Taber joined the staff of the Ladies’ Home Journal and began to contribute the column “Diary of Domesticity.”īy this time, she had separated from her husband and was living at Stillmeadow, a farmhouse built in 1690 in Southbury, Connecticut, sharing the house with Eleanor Sanford Mayer, a childhood friend who was often mistakenly identified as her sister. She went on to write several other novels and short story collections, including Tomorrow May Be Fair ( Coward, 1935), A Star to Steer By (Macrae, 1938) and This Is for Always (Macrae, 1938). Taber won attention for her first humorous novel, Late Climbs the Sun (Coward, 1934). She began her literary career with a play, Lady of the Moon (Penn), in 1928, and followed with a book of verse, Lyonesse (Bozart) in 1929. Taber taught English at Lawrence College, Randolph Macon Women’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and at Columbia University, where she did postgraduate studies. The following year, she married Frank Albion Taber, Jr., giving birth to their daughter on July 7, 1923. She returned to her hometown and earned a master’s in 1921 from Lawrence College, where her father was on faculty. Gladys graduated from Appleton High School and enrolled at Wellesley College, receiving her bachelor’s degree in 1920. During her childhood, she moved frequently as her father accepted various teaching posts until they finally settled in Appleton, Wisconsin. An older sister, Majel, had died at the age of six months while a younger brother Walter died at 15 months. Her parents were Rufus Mather Bagg, who could trace his ancestry back to Cotton Mather, and the former Grace Sibyl Raybold. ![]() She died on March 11, 1980, leaving 50 published books as her legacy.ġ925/8 Lady of the Moon1929 Lyonnesse1934 Late Climbs the Sun1935 Tomorrow May Be Fair1937 The Evergreen Tree1938 Long Tails and Short1938 A Star to Steer By1938 This Is For Always1940 Harvest at Stillmeadow1944 The Heart Has April Too1944 Give Us This Day1944 Nurse in Blue1945/9 Especially Spaniels1945 Give Me the Stars1946 The Family on Maple Street1947/8 Flower Arranging for the American Home1947/51 Stillmeadow Kitchen1948 The Book of Stillmeadow1948 Daisy and Dobbin, Two Little Seahorses1949 Especially Father1949 The First Book of Dogs1950 The First Book of Cats1950 Stillmeadow Seasons1952 When Dogs Meet People1953 Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge1955 Stillmeadow Daybook1957 Mrs.A prolific author whose output includes plays, essays, memoirs and fiction, Gladys Taber (1899 – 1980) is perhaps best recalled for a series of books and columns about her life at Stillmeadow, a 17th-century farmhouse in Southbury, Connecticut.īorn Gladys Bagg on Apin Colorado Springs, Colorado, she was the middle child and only one to survive to adulthood. Marriage and a baby interrupted her academic career, then for more than 20 years, she lived in her vintage 1690 Southbury, Connecticut farmhouse, having commuted to New York part of the time to teach creative writing at Columbia University. Later, she received her bachelor's degree from Wellesley and her M.A. She lived in New Mexico, California, Illinois, Wisconsin, and spent time on her grandfather's farm in Massachusetts. Gladys Taber, beloved author of The Stillmeadow books, columnist for "Ladies Home Journal" and "Family Circle", was born in Colorado Springs on April 12, 1899, and spent most of her early years moving because of her father's work as a mining engineer.
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