Kansas Women in Literature by Nettie Garmer Barker
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mother are in England at present visiting him.
Mrs. Whitcomb is a contributor to the magazines and in addition, has written ``Odd Little Lass,'' ``Freshman and Senior,'' ``Majorbanks,'' ``His Best Friend,'' ``Pen's Venture,'' ``Queer As She Could Be,'' and ``Curly Head.'' She is a graduate of the University of Vermont and the Boston University Law School and was the first woman to lecture before a man's law school. MYRA WILLIAMS JARRELL. Myra Williams Jarrell, the daughter of the late Archie L. Williams, for thirty years, the attorney for the Union Pacific Railway in Kansas, and the grand-daughter of Judge Archibald Williams, the first United States Circuit Judge of Kansas, appointed by Lincoln, comes of a literary family. All of the men and some of the women on the father's side of the family and also, on the mother's to a great extent, had literary talent. As a child, she cherished an ambition to |
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