Maude Meagher
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Maude Meagher was a novelist, author of Fantastic Traveller, the tale of a young man living in a world of his dreams. She was born in Boston
, Massachusetts
to Rev. H.A. Meagher and Anne Maude Tomlinson. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley
in 1917, where she met her life-long friend Catherine Urner, and became a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle
in 1918. In 1919-1920, she worked as a foreign correspondent and an actress in England and Germany, and then traveled with her friend Catherine through France
, Algeria
and Italy
. In 1925, she wrote the adventure novel Copper Mountain: Adventurous Days Among the Eskimos partly based on the books of Vilhjalmur Stefansson
. 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. 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. Because of the acoustics, which he considered ideal, their friend famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin
loved to play the violin in the great room.
Boston
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, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
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to Rev. H.A. Meagher and Anne Maude Tomlinson. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
in 1917, where she met her life-long friend Catherine Urner, and became a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...
in 1918. In 1919-1920, she worked as a foreign correspondent and an actress in England and Germany, and then traveled with her friend Catherine through France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
and Italy
Italy
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. In 1925, she wrote the adventure novel Copper Mountain: Adventurous Days Among the Eskimos partly based on the books of Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Vilhjalmur Stefansson was a Canadian Arctic explorer and ethnologist.-Early life:Stefansson, born William Stephenson, was born at Gimli, Manitoba, Canada, in 1879. His parents had emigrated from Iceland to Manitoba two years earlier...
. 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. 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. Because of the acoustics, which he considered ideal, their friend famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...
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)