![]() ![]() She published a collection of poetry, Lyonnesse, in 1926, and her first novel Late Climbs the Sun (1934) was favorably reviewed in The New York Times. Though she became a freelance writer in 1932, Taber also taught English at Randolph Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, during the academic year 1925–26, and creative writing at Columbia University from 1936 to 1943. She married a fellow teacher, Frank Albion Taber, Jr., in 1922 and gave birth to daughter Constance. Upon graduation, she returned home to Appleton, where she taught English at Lawrence College while earning a master's degree there in 1921. She attended Appleton High School in Appleton, Wisconsin, before receiving a bachelor's degree at Wellesley College in 1920. ![]() Taber began writing early, penning a historical novel at age nine and poetry at ten. Gladys Taber was born in 1899 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the second daughter of Grace Raybold Bagg and Rufus Mather Bagg, a descendant of a Massachusetts Puritan family that included both Cotton and Increase Mather. Lady of the Moon (play, 1928) Lyonnesse (poetry, 1929). Daffodil (1957) What Cooks at Stillmeadow: The Favorite Recipes of Gladys Taber (1958) Stillmeadow Sampler (1959) The Stillmeadow Road (1962) Another Path (1963) Gladys Taber's Stillmeadow Cookbook (1965) Especially Dogs … Especially at Stillmeadow (1968) Flower Arranging (1969) Amber: A Very Personal Cat (1970) My Own Cape Cod (1971) My Own Cookbook: From Stillmeadow and Cape Cod (1972) Country Chronicle (1974) The Best of Stillmeadow: A Treasury of Country Living (1976) Harvest of Yesterdays (autobiography, 1976) Conversations with Amber (1978) Still Cove Journal (1981). Harvest at Stillmeadow (1940) Especially Spaniels (1945) Stillmeadow Kitchen (1947) (with Ruth Kistner) Flower Arranging for the American Home (1947) The Book of Stillmeadow (1948) Especially Father (1949) The First Book of Dogs (juvenile, 1949) The First Book of Cats (juvenile, 1950) Stillmeadow Seasons (1950) (with Barbara Webster) Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge (1953) Stillmeadow Daybook (1955) Mrs. Late Climbs the Sun (1934) Tomorrow May Be Fair (1935) The Evergreen Tree (1937) A Star to Steer By (1938) Long Tails and Short (short stories, 1938) This Is for Always (1938) Nurse in Blue (1943) The Heart Has April Too (1944) Give Us This Day (1944) Give Me the Stars (1945) The Family on Maple Street (1946) Daisy and Dobbin: Two Little Seahorses (juvenile, 1948) When Dogs Meet People (short stories, 1952) Spring Harvest (1959) One Dozen and One (short stories, 1966). Born Gladys Leonae Bagg on April 12 (though most sources cite April 12, the Social Security Index cites April 24), 1899, in Colorado Springs, Colorado died on March 11, 1980, in Hyannis, Massachusetts daughter of Rufus Mather Bagg and Grace Sibyl (Raybold) Bagg Wellesley College, B.A., 1920 Lawrence College, M.A., 1921 graduate study at Columbia University, 1931–33 married Frank Albion Taber, Jr., in 1922 children: Constance Anne Taber. American poet, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and columnist. ![]()
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