48 min
11: The child genius who vanished - history of Barbara Newhall Follett Found Objects - a history podcast
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- History
TW: mentions of su*cide
At the age of eight, Barbara Newhall Follett wrote her first novel, inventing her own mythical world and language. She was a published author by age 12. But, child prodigy Barbara Follett would go on to vanish without a trace. When she was 25, after a fight with her husband, she grabbed her coat, a notebook, and $30 in cash, and left their Boston home, never to be seen again. Today on Found Objects, I tell her story.
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SOURCES --
www.laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/vanishing-act.
blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20speople-investigating-the-strange-disappearance-of-mrs-agatha-christie/.
crimereads.com/what-happened-to-barbara-newhall-follett/.
www.britannica.com/biography/Virginia-Woolf.
www.mentalfloss.com/posts/barbara-newhall-follett-author-mystery.
www.biography.com/authors-writers/virginia-woolf.
TW: mentions of su*cide
At the age of eight, Barbara Newhall Follett wrote her first novel, inventing her own mythical world and language. She was a published author by age 12. But, child prodigy Barbara Follett would go on to vanish without a trace. When she was 25, after a fight with her husband, she grabbed her coat, a notebook, and $30 in cash, and left their Boston home, never to be seen again. Today on Found Objects, I tell her story.
Follow us on IG: instagram.com/foundobjectspodcast
SOURCES --
www.laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/vanishing-act.
blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20speople-investigating-the-strange-disappearance-of-mrs-agatha-christie/.
crimereads.com/what-happened-to-barbara-newhall-follett/.
www.britannica.com/biography/Virginia-Woolf.
www.mentalfloss.com/posts/barbara-newhall-follett-author-mystery.
www.biography.com/authors-writers/virginia-woolf.
48 min