• 11: The child genius who vanished - history of Barbara Newhall Follett

  • May 15 2024
  • Length: 48 mins
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  • 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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    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.

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