Here, while working toward her bachelor of arts degree (which she received in 1918), she was active in several campus organizations, including the dramatic society, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Following graduation she was a publicist for the YWCA in New York City, and in 1919 she married writer and boating enthusiast Charles A. Rawlings Jr. The couple moved to Rochester, New York, where Marjorie Rawlings did advertising and newspaper writing and tried unsuccessfully to find a publisher for her fiction. Between 1926 and 1928 she wrote nearly five hundred witty, satirical newspaper poems under the header "Songs of a Housewife" for the
Rochester Times-Union, as well as a novel, as yet unpublished, titled "Blood of My Blood," which she called "Poor Jane Austen."
In 1928 the couple bought a seventy-two-acre orange grove at Cross Creek, near Hawthorne, Florida. Here she found the environmental harmony she had wanted and again attempted to write for commercial publication. Before long her stories about life in the scrub and hammock country of northern Florida were being published and attracting an audience, not the least of whom was the celebrated editor Maxwell E.
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