BURIED TOGETHER
Partner Eleanor Mayer
Queer Places:
Wellesley College (Seven Sisters), 106 Central St, Wellesley, MA 02481
Columbia University (Ivy League), 116th St and Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Stillmeadow, 487 Sanford Rd, Southbury, CT 06488
Southbury Congregational Church, Pine Hill Cemetery, Southbury, CT 06488
Gladys Bagg Taber (April 12, 1899 – March 11, 1980), author of 59 books, including the
Stillmeadow books, and columnist for
Ladies' Home Journal and
Family Circle, was born in
Colorado Springs on April 12, 1899,[1]
and spent most of her early years moving because of her father's work as a
mining engineer. She lived in
New
Mexico, California, Illinois and Wisconsin, and spent time on her
grandfather's farm in Massachusetts. Later, she received a bachelor's degree
from
Wellesley in 1920 and an M.A. from
Lawrence College in 1921.
She married Frank Taber, and they had a
daughter, Constance, which interrupted her academic career; then for more than
20 years, she lived in Stillmeadow, her vintage 1690
Southbury, Connecticut, farmhouse, having commuted to New York part of the
time to teach
creative writing at
Columbia University from 1921 to 1926. The house was jointly owned by the
Tabers and their friends Eleanor and Max Mayer. Eleanor became Taber’s longtime companion and is Jill in Taber’s writings. They met at summer camp when they were 14 years old and were roommates at Wellesley.
Gladys Taber lived in Stillmeadow, a 1690 farmhouse off Jeremy Swamp Road
in Southbury, starting in 1933 (summers only) and 1935 (full-time).
She died on March 11, 1980.[1]
Her column "Diary of Domesticity" began in the Ladies' Home Journal in
November 1937; "Butternut Wisdom" ran in the Family Circle from 1959 to
1967.
My published books:
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