ORU_Coll264.xml Guide to the Edith Wherry Muckleston Papers 1858-1961 Muckleston (Edith Wherry) Papers Finding aid prepared by University of Oregon Libraries, Archivists' Toolkit Project Team and Tanya Parlet. Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives 2011
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Edith Wherry Muckleston papers Wherry, Edith, 1876-1961 Coll 264 7.5 linear feet 15 containers 1858-1961 Edith Wherry Muckleston (1876-1961) was an author who spent her childhood in Peking, China with her missionary parents. The collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, photographs and Chinese manuscripts and artifacts. 14 manuscript boxes and 1 tube. English . 15 16 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

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 Wherry, Edith, 1876-1961 Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962 Wherry, Edith, 1876-1961 Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 Wherry family China--History--Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901 Beijing (China)--History--Siege, 1900--Photographs Women authors, American--20th century Missionaries--China American fiction--20th century--Authorship American fiction--Women authors China--Fiction Authors, American--20th century Missions, American--China Literature Correspondence Manuscripts for publication

Edith Wherry Muckleston (1876-1961) was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to parents John Wherry and Sara Ellen Brandon. Her parents were both missionaries who lived in Peking, China where Muckleston lived from age two to sixteen. Muckleston attended college at Wellesley (1898-1900), Stanford (1900-1901), the Sorbonne, and she received her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1907. Muckleston is the author of such celebrated novels as "The Red Lantern," (1911) "The Wanderer on a Thousand Hills," (1917) and "The Jade Mountain" (1925), all set in China. "The Red Lantern" was made into a film in 1919. She married Harold Muckleston in 1911 and together they had three daughters. Edith Muckleston died in 1961.

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