Journalities

Journalities

from Ladies Home Journal - Spring 1956

Gladys Taber has some hot copy—a fire destroyed her barn and kennels just before Christmas—but the millions of readers of her Diary of Domesticity will learn all about that in due time. We have been warned to confine this mention to her story, Legend of Lavinia, which appears on page 82, after appearing in the author’s head in many different forms for more than a year. Mrs. Taber wrote fiction for the JOURNAL before she began the Diary—and that was nearly eighteen years ago. “Lavinia,” she says, “is the one I like best recently.” Anything that readers of the Diary and the five Stillmeadow books (the latest, Stillmeadow Daybook) don’t know about her can be imagined from this self-portrait: “I’m the sort that always gets to the station in time to catch the train before the train I came to catch.”

Many thanks to Lisa for providing this article and to Wilma for dating it.