

GLADYS TABER AND JILL PLUS
Gladys Taber lived in Stillmeadow, a 1690 farmhouse off Jeremy Swamp Road in Southbury, starting in 1933 (summers only) and 1935 (full-time). Amber: A Very Personal Cat: Contains a poem for Amber, a history of cats, plus information on caring for cats & kittens (1970) Another Path: A book about the loss of Gladys' partner Jill. 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. The house was jointly owned by the Tabers and their friends Eleanor and Max Mayer. 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 City part of the time to teach creative writing at Columbia University from 1921 to 1926.


In 1920, she received a bachelor's degree from Wellesley, and an M.A. She lived in New Mexico, California, Illinois and Wisconsin, and spent time on her grandfather's farm in Massachusetts. Tabers worries in 1959 are, surprisingly, true for today: our need for busy-ness. (1963) Best of Stillmeadow, The: A Treasury: Various writings from the Stillmeadow books chosen by Gladys daughter, Constance. Gladys Bagg Taber 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. Amber: A Very Personal Cat: Contains a poem for Amber, a history of cats, plus information on caring for cats & kittens (1970) Another Path: A book about the loss of Gladys partner Jill. Gladys Bagg Taber (1899–1980), author of 59 books, including the Stillmeadow books, and columnist for Ladies' Home Journal and Family Circle. As time went on, writing began to take up all of. +Biography Gladys Taber (born Gladys Bagg Taber) was born in 1899 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Gladys died in 1980 at the age of eighty. Wellesley College BA, Lawrence College MA Jill, the real-life Kay, died just about the time this book was pub- lished and Gladys Taber died last spring, its hard to read Mrs. After her parents had died, Gladys family consisted of her husband, Frank Taber, and her daughter Constance. She was best known for her Stillmeadow works.
