Barbara MacGahan
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 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]
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.[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.
See also
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 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.
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]
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