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Galbraith (present) walks forward with the newborn 1941 (future), as enfeebled 1940 (past) gives new year an encouraging pat on back."
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Galbraith was described as "one of the few poets who could make a living at her craft by writing under more than 125 pseudonyms". These included Anne
Patrice, Tracy Ellington, Penny Pennington, and Stuart Pennington.
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Starbuck Galbraith described herself as living "alone in an amiable clutter of books, manuscripts, pictures and junk". Virginia Scott Miner, "It fits the season with a merry mood",
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Mrs. Galbraith takes a good-natured cardboard sword to urban and suburban life. cheerful melange, whose mark is middling, and definitely not for the McGinley set.
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The Portable Writer's Conference: Your Guide to Getting Published
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Virginia Scott Miner, "It fits the season with a merry mood",
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