![]() ![]() In 1922, at the age of 8, she wrote again to Mr. She didn’t have many playmates – her best friends were animals. The next day Ding and I went down Ridgeview Place, and there were the snake and the stick. Day before yesterday Daddy killed a snake in the potato-patch then he threw the snake away with a stick, and then he threw away the stick. Before they eat their suppers, they sit on the clothesline and swing in the breeze. There are ten goldfinches, five males and five females. The goldfinches come every afternoon and eat their supper on the clump of bachelor’s-buttons right on the left-hand side of the path that leads from the back door to our road. ![]() At the age of four she became fascinated by the clicking of her father’s typewriter and soon began writing poetry. Her parents home schooled her so that she could develop her passions, which were mainly nature and writing. Her second novel, The Voyage of the Norman D., was published and critically acclaimed when she was 14. At the age of 25, Barbara left her apartment with $30 (after fighting with her husband) and was never seen again.įollett was born in New Hampshire, the only child of two literary critics and essayists, in 1914. Barbara Newhall Follett published her first novel The House Without Windows, at the age of 12. ![]()
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