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\"books\"<\/a>
\nKatharine Haviland-Taylor wrote more than 20 books of light fiction, and actors such as Marion Davies, Lionel Barrymore and May Robson performed her work. She lived in a home on namesake Haviland Road<\/a> in West Manchester Township. She was one of 50 women achievers in York County honored by AAUW in 1984. (See complete list of other achievers below). Histories attempt to fill blanks in women’s, black history<\/a> and York County Civil War hero grandmom of Gore Vidal<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the past 5 years, the Daily Record\/Sunday News has been updating the bios of women profiled in AAUW’s “Legacies: Remembrances of York County Women.”
\nWe’re at it again this year, choosing a handful of the 50 women on the roster of the 1984 booklet and making their bios current and available to the public.
\nSo far, we’ve published five of their bios here, in addition to today’s look at Katharine Haviland-Taylor: …<\/p>\n


\nEdith Barber<\/a>.
\nKatharine Beecher<\/a>.
\nDelma Rivera<\/a>.
\nEleanor Johnson<\/a>.
\nMattie Chapman<\/a>.
\nWho are others on the list and why did they achieve this honor roll?
\nThe collection is an artifact itself, albeit a bit York centric and self-selecting. But taken as a whole, the work is a wonderful resource, leading to conclusions about how women achieved outside the home in 20th-century York County:
\nTo summarize: The best careers for women were nursing, teaching, library work, writers (particularly of children’s literature) and volunteer social service work at the YWCA and other such agencies.
\nThe list is lean on lawyers, physicians and businesswomen. It includes three black women and one Latino.
\nThe booklet is available in the York County Library System<\/a>. Many of the bios are updated and accessible via www.newslibrary.com<\/a>. (There’s a small charge.)
\nWe have published many updated bios in a publication distributed in school, which I could mail to readers if you provide me your mailing address.
\nSo without further delay, here is AAUW’s view, effective 1984, of those York women who left the most appreciable legacies followed by Katharine Haviland-Taylor bio:
\nJane M. Alexander
\nJosephine Schmidt (Davidson) Appell
\nDr. Martha L. Bailey
\nEdith Allen Barber
\nKatherine Beecher
\nMildred K. Binder
\nLydia Caplan
\nMattie Mitchell Chapman
\nMary Sitler Cooper
\nDr. Evelyn (Henzel) Crawford
\nSusan Smith Etnier
\nMary Sophia Cadwell Fisher
\nPatricia Frey Flinchbaugh
\nNetta Ford
\nAnna Dill Gamble
\nElizabeth Gassert
\nDr. Florence Meda Gipe
\nHazel Graham Glessner
\nHelen Miller Gotwalt
\nMartha Scott Braun Hennessey
\nAnna M. L. Huber
\nEleanor M. Johnson
\nEmily Allen Kain
\nSylvia Welber Kramer
\nDorris Morrell Leader
\nMargaret Sarah Lewis
\nNellie Leber Longsworth
\nDr. Victoria M. Lyles
\nMary Louise Marley
\nElizabeth Nath Marshall
\nJosephine Niles McClellan
\nMargaret E. Moul
\nSylvia Weckesser Newcombe
\nKathryn Hughes (Fourhman) Olewiler
\nMary Jane Magee Rewalt
\nDelma Millain Rivera
\nBeatrice C. Ruff
\nCliriece Bridgette Schell
\nElizabeth Hough Sechrist
\nKatharine Abigail Shorey
\nSister Gilmary Simmons
\nElizabeth Barnes Smith
\nBerdella Emig Snyder
\nNellie L. Badders Stein
\nMary Gorman Stephenson
\nKatharine Haviland Taylor
\nHelen Reeves Thackston
\nChristine Dann Thomas
\nFrances Cecilia Greenawalt Wolf
\nJeanette Woolsey<\/p>\n

Katharine Haviland-Taylor<\/strong> was born in 1891 in Minnesota. Because of her frail health, she was educated at home and at private schools, a fact she is known to have regretted, telling friends she “missed meeting all the nice young people who go to public schools.”
\nShe began to write at age 17. Her first story, “Cecilia of the Pink Roses,” was published in a magazine, then in book form. Marion Davies appeared in the 1918 screen version of the story.
\nThe family spent many years living abroad, first in Florence, Italy, then in London. A brother by adoption was an accomplished artist and archaeologist; he decoded hieroglyphics and was cited for his work in the detection of spurious Egyptian specimens.
\nWhen the family moved to York, Taylor reported being happy to cook and do housework. The simple life appealed to her. She said that she wrote of things she knew; although she admitted using local environment in her books, she claimed no biography of her characters was intended. Of her more than 20 books of light fiction, two — “Yellow Soap” and “The Nine-Hundred Block” — were set in York.
\nOne of her many short stories, “The Failure,” was made into a movie in 1933, titled “One Man’s Journey.” It starred Lionel Barrymore and May Robson. It was produced again in 1938 as “A Man to Remember” and was again an immediate success.
\nIn addition to her novels, she wrote and illustrated numerous poems, and several children’s books, including stories, plays and games with an international appeal. She felt language was very important and saw her work translated into Spanish, Swedish, French, Danish and Dutch.
\nAfter several years of decline, Taylor died in November 1941 at her winter home in Clearwater, Fla. Two of her children’s stories were published posthumously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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