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Title: Margaret B. Taverner Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1940-1960
Collection number: Mss36
Creator:
Margaret B. Taverner
Extent: 0.5 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Margaret B. Taverner Collection, Mss36, Holt-Atherton
Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Margaret Taverner was an educator in Stockton, Calif.From the late 1940s through 1961 she
was a counselor, then Associate Dean of Women at Stockton [Junior] College. During most
of that time Miss Taverner carried out research on the Gold Rush era writings of Bret
Harte and Mark Twain. She was particularly interested in the relationship between the
prose of these two writers and the locales which inspired it. Miss Taverner died in 1961
or 1962. Her mother, Mrs. G.M. Taverner, and a friend, Miss Ina Marmon, gave Margaret
Taverner's notes to Holt Atherton in 1967.
This collection consists of photos and notes Taverner gathered in the course of her
research on the relationship between the real and fictional landscapes in the California
writings of Mark Twain and Bret Harte (1940-1960).