![]() ![]() In 1919, she returned to Worcester and joined the editorial department of Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston. ![]() That year, Forbes started sudies ath the University of Wisconsin and joined the editorial board of the Wisconsin Literary Magazine. In 1916, she joined her older sisters Cornelia and Katherine in Madison, Wisconsin, where Cornelia was in graduate school and Katharine was teaching. In 1915, she published her first short story, "Breakneck Hill," which won the O. She graduated from Bradford Academy in 1912. After high school, she took classes at the Worcester Art Museum and Boston University, and later, Bradford Academy, a junior college. When Esther was seven, her mother inherited a large plot of land in Worcester, Massachusetts, where the family moved in 1898.Įsther and her sisters were sent to the prestigious Bancroft School. One of her great-uncles was Samuel Adams, leader of the Sons of Liberty. ![]() Both her parents were historical enthusiasts. Her father was a probate judge in Worcester and her mother, a writer of New England reference books. Esther Louise Forbes was born as the youngest of five children in Westborough, Massachusetts, to William Trowbridge Forbes and Harriette Merrifield Forbes on June 28, 1891. ![]()
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