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'''Barbra MacGahan''' (1852-1904) was a Russian-American [[Journalist]] and [[Novelist]] and is born in [[Tula, Russia|Tula]], [[Russia]]. She was famous for writing her first novel in Russian under a fictitious name "Pavel Kashirin" and under another English pen name |
'''Barbra MacGahan''' (1852-1904) was a Russian-American [[Journalist]] and [[Novelist]] and is born in [[Tula, Russia|Tula]], [[Russia]]. She was famous for writing her first novel in Russian under a fictitious name "Pavel Kashirin" and under another English pen name for her novel "Xenia Repnina".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bartleby.com/library/bios/4038.html|title=Barbara MacGahan (1852-1904). Ayres, ed. 1917. The Reader's Dictionary of Authors|website=www.bartleby.com|access-date=2017-03-21}}</ref> |
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== Early life == |
== Early life == |
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She was born on April 26, 1852 in Tulsa, Russia under the [[Tula Governorate|Tulsa Governorate]] in the [[Russian Empire]] as the daughter of Nicolas Elagin. In 1866 she graduated from The Tulsa Female Seminary and led a well-to-do life. In 1871 she met her future husband [[New York Herald]] war correspondent reporter [[Januarius MacGahan |
She was born on April 26, 1852 in Tulsa, Russia under the [[Tula Governorate|Tulsa Governorate]] in the [[Russian Empire]] as the daughter of Nicolas Elagin. In 1866 she graduated from The Tulsa Female Seminary and led a well-to-do life. In 1871 she met her future husband [[New York Herald]] war correspondent reporter [[Januarius MacGahan]] on a trip to the Crimea.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://foreigners-georgia.blogspot.com/2016/01/barbara-macgahan-sons-and-daughters-of.html|title=Georgia through Foreign Eyes: Barbara MacGahan, "Sons and Daughters of Feudal Sires" (1896)|last=Mikaberidze|first=Alex|date=2016-01-17|website=Georgia through Foreign Eyes|access-date=2017-03-21}}</ref> |
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After two year in January 1873 they got married in [[France]] and she moved around with her husband to Lyons, Spain (1874-1875) with the Carlist Army during the Spanish War, [[England]], [[France]], [[Russia]], [[Turkey]] and later moving to [[Romania]] where she stayed throughout the Russo-Turkish War. She was also accompanied by her three-year-old son.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zXEEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA486&lpg=PA486&dq=Barbara+MacGahan&source=bl&ots=fY4g2Z2WXX&sig=I1NNsLop3PT5BJmS4zaF1h14Aao&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwibjOTBq-jSAhVk4YMKHQbsAsUQ6AEIPDAJ#v=onepage&q=Barbara%20MacGahan&f=false|title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life|last=Willard|first=Frances Elizabeth|date=1893-01-01|publisher=Moulton|language=en}}</ref> |
After two year in January 1873 they got married in [[France]] and she moved around with her husband to Lyons, Spain (1874-1875) with the Carlist Army during the Spanish War, [[England]], [[France]], [[Russia]], [[Turkey]] and later moving to [[Romania]] where she stayed throughout the Russo-Turkish War. She was also accompanied by her three-year-old son Paul MacGahan.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zXEEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA486&lpg=PA486&dq=Barbara+MacGahan&source=bl&ots=fY4g2Z2WXX&sig=I1NNsLop3PT5BJmS4zaF1h14Aao&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwibjOTBq-jSAhVk4YMKHQbsAsUQ6AEIPDAJ#v=onepage&q=Barbara%20MacGahan&f=false|title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life|last=Willard|first=Frances Elizabeth|date=1893-01-01|publisher=Moulton|language=en}}</ref> |
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== Career == |
== Career == |
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After her husband's death she worked for the "Golos" for two years in their editorial rooms while writing articles for Russian periodicals, letters from St. Petersburg,'s for the New York "Herald" and was a corresponding reporter for the Sidney "Herald", [[Australia]] at the same time.<ref name=":0" /> |
After her husband's death she worked for the "Golos" for two years in their editorial rooms while writing articles for Russian periodicals, letters from St. Petersburg,'s for the New York "Herald" and was a corresponding reporter for the Sidney "Herald", [[Australia]] at the same time.<ref name=":0" /> |
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In 1880, she was sent to the [[United States]] to cover and ovserve the presidential campaign during the year. In 1883 she returned to Russia during the coronation of Alexander III where she wrote newsletters from Russia to New York for [[The New York Times]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/|title=Breaking News, World News & Multimedia|access-date=2017-03-25}}</ref> and Boston Eagle<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eagletribune.com/|title=eagletribune.com {{!}} News that hits home|last=Eagle-Tribune|website=Eagle-Tribune|language=en|access-date=2017-03-25}}</ref>. Her journey as a journalist continued to grow as she began to write for "Novosti"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.novosti.rs/|title=Naslovna strana {{!}} Novosti.rs|website=www.novosti.rs|language=sr-Latn|access-date=2017-03-25}}</ref> of St. Petersburg and "[[Russkiye Vedomosti|Russkiye Viedomosti]]" of Moscow, the two leading liberal newspapers in Russia. She later moved permanently to the United States however, she kept her correspondence with these papers even then. |
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In 1880, she was sent to the [[United States]] to cover and ovserve the presidential campaign during the year. |
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In 1882 she became a journalist for "[[Vestnik Evropy|Messenger of Europe]]"<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YuHlxWtZcpEC&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=messenger+of+europe&source=bl&ots=KoY67TVIaf&sig=mvNd3q7cyqnJQoLJFNZSaq_CIXk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUhfCTzvDSAhVozoMKHbRNCYEQ6AEIOzAI#v=onepage&q=messenger%20of%20europe&f=false|title=Literary Journals in Imperial Russia|last=Martinsen|first=Deborah A.|date=1997-01-01|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521572927|language=en}}</ref> a leading magazine in Russia writing about living a life in Russia. In 1890 she became she wrote many regular monthly publications on American life for a St. Petersburg magazine "[http://messenger.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx Northern Messenger]"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://messenger.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx|title=Messenger Community News|website=messenger.newspaperdirect.com|access-date=2017-03-25}}</ref>.<ref name=":0" /> She also wrote fiction stories in the "Messenger of Europe" over her own signature with the name "Paul Kashirine". She contributed articles to a variety of American newspapers and magazines such as "[http://americanpressassociation.com/ American Press Association]", "[[The Youth's Companion|Youth's Companion]]" and "[[Lippincott's Monthly Magazine|Lippincott's Magazine]]". |
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In 1890 her novel "Xenia Repnina" was published in [[English language|English]] in New York City and [[London]].<ref name=":0" /> |
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== Xenia Repnina == |
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* Golos (The Voice), newspaper, 1863-1884.[http://www.encspb.ru/object/2855734187?lc=en] |
* Golos (The Voice), newspaper, 1863-1884.[http://www.encspb.ru/object/2855734187?lc=en] |
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* Library of Congress, The New York herald (New York [N.Y.]), 1840-1920.[http://www.encspb.ru/object/2855734187?lc=en] |
* Library of Congress, The New York herald (New York [N.Y.]), 1840-1920.[http://www.encspb.ru/object/2855734187?lc=en] |
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* America Press Association.[http://americanpressassociation.com/] |
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* Youth's Companion.[http://vintageamericanways.com/youths-companion/] |
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* Lippincott's Magazine.[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=lippincotts] |
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* Northern Messenger.[http://messenger.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx] |
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Revision as of 02:52, 25 March 2017
Barbra MacGahan (1852-1904) was a Russian-American Journalist and Novelist and is born in Tula, Russia. She was famous for writing her first novel in Russian under a fictitious name "Pavel Kashirin" and under another English pen name for her novel "Xenia Repnina".[1]
Early life
She was born on April 26, 1852 in Tulsa, Russia under the Tulsa Governorate in the Russian Empire as the daughter of Nicolas Elagin. In 1866 she graduated from The Tulsa Female Seminary and led a well-to-do life. In 1871 she met her future husband New York Herald war correspondent reporter Januarius MacGahan on a trip to the Crimea.[2]
After two year in January 1873 they got married in France and she moved around with her husband to Lyons, Spain (1874-1875) with the Carlist Army during the Spanish War, England, France, Russia, Turkey and later moving to Romania where she stayed throughout the Russo-Turkish War. She was also accompanied by her three-year-old son Paul MacGahan.[3]
Career
Her career began helping her husband with his writing, translating and transcribing during their travels around the world while she accompanied him during the Spanish–American War and the Russian-Turkish War. During the Carlist War she wrote newsletters under her husband's name which were published in St. Petersburg's most liberal paper the "Golos". After that she set off on her own journalistic pathway to the beginning of her career.
After her husband's death she worked for the "Golos" for two years in their editorial rooms while writing articles for Russian periodicals, letters from St. Petersburg,'s for the New York "Herald" and was a corresponding reporter for the Sidney "Herald", Australia at the same time.[3]
In 1880, she was sent to the United States to cover and ovserve the presidential campaign during the year. In 1883 she returned to Russia during the coronation of Alexander III where she wrote newsletters from Russia to New York for The New York Times[4] and Boston Eagle[5]. Her journey as a journalist continued to grow as she began to write for "Novosti"[6] of St. Petersburg and "Russkiye Viedomosti" of Moscow, the two leading liberal newspapers in Russia. She later moved permanently to the United States however, she kept her correspondence with these papers even then.
In 1882 she became a journalist for "Messenger of Europe"[7] a leading magazine in Russia writing about living a life in Russia. In 1890 she became she wrote many regular monthly publications on American life for a St. Petersburg magazine "Northern Messenger"[8].[3] She also wrote fiction stories in the "Messenger of Europe" over her own signature with the name "Paul Kashirine". She contributed articles to a variety of American newspapers and magazines such as "American Press Association", "Youth's Companion" and "Lippincott's Magazine".
In 1890 her novel "Xenia Repnina" was published in English in New York City and London.[3]
Xenia Repnina
See also
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References
- ^ "Barbara MacGahan (1852-1904). Ayres, ed. 1917. The Reader's Dictionary of Authors". www.bartleby.com. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
- ^ Mikaberidze, Alex (2016-01-17). "Georgia through Foreign Eyes: Barbara MacGahan, "Sons and Daughters of Feudal Sires" (1896)". Georgia through Foreign Eyes. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
- ^ a b c d Willard, Frances Elizabeth (1893-01-01). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Moulton.
- ^ "Breaking News, World News & Multimedia". Retrieved 2017-03-25.
- ^ Eagle-Tribune. "eagletribune.com | News that hits home". Eagle-Tribune. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
- ^ "Naslovna strana | Novosti.rs". www.novosti.rs (in Serbian (Latin script)). Retrieved 2017-03-25.
- ^ Martinsen, Deborah A. (1997-01-01). Literary Journals in Imperial Russia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521572927.
- ^ "Messenger Community News". messenger.newspaperdirect.com. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
External links
- Library of Congress, The Spanish–American War.[1]
- Yale University Library, Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878.[2]
- Golos (The Voice), newspaper, 1863-1884.[3]
- Library of Congress, The New York herald (New York [N.Y.]), 1840-1920.[4]
- America Press Association.[5]
- Youth's Companion.[6]
- Lippincott's Magazine.[7]
- Northern Messenger.[8]
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