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coast, in 1895, and ''The White Horse In The Tree Top'', as well as a number of short stories. She was born Maria Taylor in

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, in 1894, and studied art in

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. She married Charles Willing Beale, who was also an author, on January 25, 1872, and lived in

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(which they helped found and which her husband named after the woods in

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's ''

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'').Leonard, John William (ed.
Woman's Who's who of America: 1914-15
p. 85 (1914) (longer entry than 1901 version), Public domain She died in Arden on January 21, 1929, and is buried with her husband at Calvary Episcopal Church Cemetery in

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External links

Jack O'Doon: A Novel
(full text online, Google books) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor Beale, Maria 1849 births 1929 deaths American women writers Writers from Richmond, Virginia People from Arden, North Carolina