Discipline: Literature

Jean Bothwell

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY and INDIA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1945
Jean Bothwell (1892-1977) was a Nebraskan who spent many years as a Methodist missionary living and teaching history in India. A lover of history, she eventually settled in New York City and wrote more than 50 books, many of them about the India she loved, other historical novels, and juvenile mysteries.

Studios

Wood

Jean Bothwell worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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