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Women from Utah had voted for quite a while and my mother, Aurania Ellerbeck, was a Republican feminist. She had been a change-of-life baby, the youngest of twenty-two children, only eight of whom were born to her mother. My grandfather was an apostate Mormon. After two years of trying to figure out a name for her, someone noticed that a Cunard liner named the 'Aurania' had docked in San Pedro, and they all thought, “What a nice name!” My mother went to Radcliffe to study playwriting, and while she was there in...
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- ↑ Stanford Daily, Jan 7, 1932, p. 1
- ↑ The Stanford English Club Year Book. 1909.
The Stanford English Club takes pleasure in presenting the first of a proposed series of Year Books, initiated with the hope that it may conduce to the encouragement of original literary work at Stanford University.....'Little Kingdom' by Aurania Ellerbeck
- ↑ "Fight songs that are out of this world". The Stanford Daily. 23 November 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ↑ Aurania Ellerbeck in Little Women production in New York 1913 ... www.newspapers.com › ... › 1913 › Apr › 14 › Page 25 (A Scene in "Little Women" Joseph EAGLE ...)
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- ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries 1933 Dramatic Compositions Motion Pictures Vol 6 Pt 1 For the Year 1933. U.S. Govt. Print. Off. 1933.
Aurania Ellerbeck Rouveyrol, Palo Alto, Calif.
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- ↑ Jean Rouverol Butler Papers - Online Archive of California
