344:, the couple married in July 1934. At this time, Barbara still wrote, but her work was no longer in favor with publishers. Although initially happy, by 1937 Barbara had started expressing dissatisfaction concerning married life in her letters to close friends, and by 1938 these cracks had widened even further. Follett soon came to believe that Rogers was being unfaithful to her and became
239:, as a birthday present for her mother using a small portable typewriter she had been given. The story concerned a young girl, named Eepersip, who runs away from home and family to live happily in nature, complete with animal friends. Though later that year her manuscript burned in a house fire, Follett rewrote the entire story and her father, an editor at the
387:, one-half mile (0.80 km) from a farmhouse where Follett and Rogers had a long-standing rental agreement. The possessions found with the body were consistent with Follett's belongings. However, local police were unaware of her disappearance and had no record of it. The cause of death was determined to be suicide, as a bottle containing
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silence on your part looks as if you had something to hide concerning
Barbara's disappearance ... You cannot believe that I shall sit idle during my last few years and not make whatever effort I can to find out whether Bar is alive or dead, whether, perhaps, she is in some institution suffering from amnesia or nervous breakdown."
211:, a literary editor, critic and university lecturer, and former schoolteacher Helen Thomas Follett. She had an elder half-sister, named Grace, from her father's first marriage, as well as a younger sister, Sabra Follett, later Sabra Follett Meservey — the first woman to be admitted as a graduate student to
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215:, in 1961. Schooled at home by her mother, Barbara showed an early aptitude for reading and writing, as she began to write her own poetry by the age of four. Barbara was an imaginative and intelligent child: by age seven, she had begun to put to paper her own imaginary world,
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Follett's body was never found, and law enforcement did not find evidence either indicating or excluding foul play. The date and circumstances of her death were not established.
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