Maude Meagher (8 April 1895Johnson, p.6 – 1977Grant & Clute, p.23Johnson, p.192
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Biography

Maude Meagher was born in

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to Rev. H.A. Meagher and Anne Maude Tomlinson. She graduated from the

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in 1917, where she met her lifelong friend Catherine Urner. Meagher became a reporter for the ''

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'' in 1918. In 1919-1920, she worked as a foreign correspondent and an actress in England and Germany,Johnson, p.10 and then traveled with her friend Catherine through France,

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and Italy.Johnson, p.11 In 1925, she wrote the adventure novel ''Copper Mountain: Adventurous Days Among the Eskimos'' partly based on the books of

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. In 1930 she published her novel, ''White Jade'', a historical novel about Yang Kuei-fei telling how Po Chu'i (Bo Juyi) came to write his famous poem "Everlasting Sorrow" about Yang. In 1934, she wrote "The Green Scamander," a novel about the Trojan War from the viewpoint of the Amazons. She is the author of ''Fantastic Traveller'' (1931), the tale of a young man living in a world of his dreams. With her friend Carolyn Smiley, Meagher started publishing '' World Youth'' magazine. They ran the magazine out of an adobe house called "Casa Tierra" which they built and lived in. When it was completed in 1947, it was reportedly the largest secular adobe in North America. They wrote of their experience in a book entitled ''How We Built An Adobe House For World Youth''.Johnson, p.191
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loved to play the violin in the great room.

Novels

# ''Copper Mountain: Adventurous Days Among the Eskimos'' (1925) # ''White Jade'' (1930) # ''Fantastic Traveller'' (1931) # ''The Green Scamander'' (1934)

Footnotes

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Meagher, Maude 1895 births 1977 deaths 20th-century American novelists Writers from Boston American women novelists 20th-century American women writers Novelists from Massachusetts