Cora Baggerly Older

Cora Miranda Baggerly Older (1875 – September 26, 1968) was an American writer and historian known for her California-based writing and activism.

She often collaborated on social issues with her husband, Fremont Older, and she is now best remembered as a writer and historian of Californian events and people.

Older's work covered a variety of mediums including novels, reviews, and magazine articles, often tackling social issues; she also wrote biographies of William Randolph Hearst and his father.

She and her classmates had performed in a play in Sacramento, which Fremont Older happened to have attended.

[5][6] In 1912, the couple purchased some land and then two years built later Woodhills,[7] a house of hybrid architectural features that Cora Older mostly directed.