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Sue Booth-Forbes
BornSusan Larson
Provo, Utah
OccupationEditor and coach, English teacher
LanguageEnglish
NationalityUnited States
CitizenshipUS, Ireland
Alma materBrigham Young University
Children2
RelativesClinton Larson (father)

Susan Booth-Forbes (formerly Paxman, née Larson), is a teacher, writer and literary editor. She edited the Mormon women's journal Exponent II from 1984 to 1997, and has operated the Anam Cara Writer's and Artist's Retreat in West Cork, Ireland since 1998, hosting and supporting more than 1,000 writers and other creative artists.

Life

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Early life

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Susan Larson was born to Clinton (1919-1994)[1] and Naomi Larson (née Barlow) (1923-2010)[2]Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). of Provo, Utah,[2] U.S.; her grandfather was the athlete Clinton Larson.[3] Her father was an academic at Brigham Young University, and a poet and playwright; he was the university's poet-in-residence for many years.[4] She has one sister.[2] Diane Larson Porter,[5]

Early career

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Virginia

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Larson studied at Brigham Young University (BYU) and started her teaching career, in Utah, in 1966. She moved to Charlottesville, Virginia in 1969, when her husband John M Paxman, also a graduate of BYU, became a student at the University of Virginia School of Law. She held teaching posts in local schools and after being denied a renewal of contract as an English teacher at Albemarle High School in summer 1971 due to a pregnancy with a due date in December,[6] she, as the family's main breadwinner (her husband held a part-time post in Washington, D.C. at the Federal Judicial Center), had to find new work. She then secured her first editorial work, as an editorial researcher at the University of Virginia Medical School, working up to her last week of pregnancy.[7]

The Gough-Paxman case

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Paxman, who stated that she had been surprised by the restrictive Virginia maternity rules, as those in Utah had been more flexible, and shocked when the county school board upheld the initial decision, became one of two plaintiffs in a suit challenging rules across Virginia around employment discrimination due to pregnancy,[6] winning a declaration of the unconstitutionality of such rules in 1975, and damages to include lost pay, but, on appeal, concluded in 1980, losing recompense other than an entitlement to reinstatement[8] and partial cover for legal fees. While originally certified as a class action potentially including all pregnant teachers in the state,[6] it was later decertified, but after an early ruling in the case, in 1972 the discriminatory rules were dismantled anyway.[8][9]

Greater Boston

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Susan Paxman lived for a period in the greater Boston area, including in Arlington, Massachusetts.[1] She was a member of the team producing Exponent II, a magazine by and largely for Mormon women, from its second issue in October 1974[10] until 1997 and in some form to at least 2007.[11] After a period taking the lead on sport, she served as its fourth Editor from spring 1984[12] until 1997,[13] as Susan L. or Sue Paxman until 1996,[14] then as Sue Booth-Forbes.[15] The magazine addressed a wide range of issues, including reproductive rights, peace campaigns and the roles and potential of women. Paxman's husband also worked as a lawyer and advisor in the area of reproductive rights, and published a number of books and papers.

In 1993 Paxman also served for three weeks as on-set personal guardian (a Screen Actors Guild-mandated role) for actress Eliza Dushku, whose mother, Judith Rasmussen Dushku, a fellow Mormon from the same region and a friend,[16] was also on the Exponent II team. Booth-Forbes later backed Eliza Dushku when she alleged an off-set sexual assault by a member of the production team - which Dushku at the time reported only to her mother, a brother, and a family friend - and commented on the overall industry situation at that time.[17]

Booth-Forbes also worked for the Cambridge University Press.[18]

Ireland

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Following divorce, looking for a new direction, and having multiple retreats linked to Exponent II, and a prolonged literary retreat with friends in Connemara, Booth-Forbes established a residential creative retreat location.[19] In December 1997 she searched with her daughter and purchased a property in the small village of Eyeries on the West Cork part of the Beara Peninsula, launching the Anam Cara Writers Retreat in summer 1998. Over twenty years, more than 1,000 creative guests - writers, composers, choreographers, visual artists -[18] have since visited, leaving more than 500 works on the shelves in the common areas of the house.[19] The house itself is at the centre of a multi-acre space with more than thirty private working alcoves, some on a landscaped river bank. Booth-Forbes describes her work with some guests as that of a "literary midwife" and also as partly modelled on the way her mother looked after her poet father, and several guests have dedicated a work to her.[20]

Aside from her work as director of the Anam Cara Retreat, Booth-Forbes remains active in local fundraising and literary activities,[21] as well as promotion and news-gathering for the local area.[22]

Personal life

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Booth-Forbes has two children and as of 2014, three grandchildren.[21] She became an Irish citizen in 2012.[23]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Obituary - Clinton F. Larson". Deseret News. 12 July 1994. Retrieved 9 August 2019. Date of death: 10 July 1994
  2. ^ a b c "Obituary - Larson, Naomi". Deseret News. 21 April 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2019. Date of death: 14 April 2010
  3. ^ "Clinton Larson papers". Brigham Young University - Library. Retrieved 9 August 2019. focuses on Clinton Larson's athletic, military, and physical education careers
  4. ^ "Clinton Larson (1919-1994)". Brigham Young University - Library. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  5. ^ "Clinton Larson papers". Brigham Young University - Library. Retrieved 9 August 2019. Donated by Sue Larson Booth-Forbes and Diane Larson Porter, granddaughters of Clinton Larson
  6. ^ a b c "Two pregnant teachers file class action suit". The Bee. Danville, Virginia. AP (Richmond, VA). 7 December 1971. p. 3-A.
  7. ^ "Two pregnant schoolteachers file suit alleging discrimination". The Indianapolis Star. 23 January 1972. p. Sec 7, page 6.
  8. ^ a b "2 female teachers ordered reinstated". The News-Leader. Staunton, Virginia. AP (Richmond, VA). 6 January 1980. p. 6A.
  9. ^ "US case law - US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit- 612 F.2d 848 (4th Cir. 1975)". Justia - US Law. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  10. ^ Bushman (Editor), Claudia L. (October 1974). "(Masthead)". Exponent II. I (II). Arlington, Mass. 02174: Mormon Sisters, Inc.: 19. {{cite journal}}: |last1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  11. ^ Emilycc (30 July 2007). "Exponent II's Annual Retreat". Exponent II. Retrieved 9 August 2019. We are excited to have Sue Booth-Forbes (formerly Paxman) as our keynote speaker this year. She moved to Ireland over ten years ago and has created a wonderful, nurturing artist's retreat in her new home.
  12. ^ Paxman (Editor), Susan L. (1984). "(Masthead)". Exponent II. 10 (3). Arlington, Mass. 02174: Exponent II, Inc.: 20. {{cite journal}}: |last1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  13. ^ Booth-Forbes (Editor), Sue (1997). "(Masthead)". Exponent II. 20 (4). Arlington, Mass. 02174: Exponent II, Inc.: 20. {{cite journal}}: |last1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  14. ^ Paxman (Editor), Sue (1996). "(Masthead)". Exponent II. 19 (3). Arlington, Mass. 02174: Exponent II, Inc.: 20. {{cite journal}}: |last1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  15. ^ Paxman (Editor), Sue (1997). "(Masthead)". Exponent II. 20 (2). Arlington, Mass. 02174: Exponent II, Inc.: 20. {{cite journal}}: |last1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
  16. ^ Koch, James (12 July 1992). "This girl's life". The Boston Globe. pp. B25-26. ...several family members who, along with Judy's close friend Sue Paxman, took turns living with Eliza on location
  17. ^ "True Lies actress stands by claims she was 'molested' at 12". BBC News. 16 January 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2019. Sue Booth-Forbes acted as the 12-year-old actress's legal guardian while on the set of True Lies...
  18. ^ a b Mulcahy, Miriam (5 August 2017). "I want to be alone: solitary retreats for some quality me time". The Irish Times.
  19. ^ a b O'Connell, Sandra (16 March 2013). "Steal away to write that novel". The Irish Times.
  20. ^ "A perfect place to write". The Irish Times. 12 November 2011.
  21. ^ a b "Dispatches from Ireland – Anam Cara: A Shelter for Artists and Writers". The Bedford Citizen. 30 July 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  22. ^ "Beara News - late 2018". Beara News. September 2018.
  23. ^ Booth-Forbes (editor, main writer), Sue (20 May 2012). "Fabulous news!". Anam Cara Writer's and Artist's Retreat blog. Retrieved 22 August 2019. I am more than thrilled to say that I have just been granted Irish citizenship {{cite web}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
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