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Barbara MacGahan

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Barbra MacGahan (1852-1904) is a Russian-American Journalist and Novelist and is born in Tula, Russia. She is famous for writing her first novel in Russian under a fictitious name "Pavel Kashirin" and under another English pen name of "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 McGahan on a trip to the Crimea.[2]

Career

See also

References

  1. ^ "Barbara MacGahan (1852-1904). Ayres, ed. 1917. The Reader's Dictionary of Authors". www.bartleby.com. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  2. ^ 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.