Laura Clifford Barney | |
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| Born | 1879 |
| Died | 1974 |
Laura Clifford Barney (1879 - 1974) was a leading American Bahá’í teacher and philanthropist who was well known for having compiled Some Answered Questions from her interviews with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Her parents were Albert and Alice Pike Barney, and she had a sister, Natalie Clifford Barney.
She was known as Laura Dreyfus-Barney after marrying Hippolyte Dreyfus.
Life[edit]
She attended Les Ruches, a French boarding school founded by feminist Marie Souvestre. While continuing her studies in Paris Laura met May Ellis Bolles (later Maxwell), a Canadian Bahá’í, and was converted to the faith in about 1900. Her mother converted soon afterward.
In 1914 she visited the German colony of Qingdao, China, together with her husband, Hippolyte, wanting to go on to travel up the Yangzi river (and overland) to Kunming, Yunnan Province. However they soon returned to Europe due to the first world war breaking out, escaping from Qingdao thanks to Hippolyte's adroitness. They got away from the German colony and returned to France in time for him to assume his military obligations.[1]
Publications[edit]
- 1908 - Some Answered Questions, translated and compiled from interviews with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
- 1910 - God's Heroes[2]
References[edit]
Notes[edit]
External Links[edit]
- Laura Alice Dreyfus-Barney on WikiTree - family tree
