Mabel Major papers, 1823-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1970 (bulk).

Mabel Major was born in 1894 in Ogden, Utah. She received A.B., B.S., and M.A. degrees from the University of Missouri. She was a professor in the English Department at Texas Christian University from 1919 to 1963. She specialized in Southwestern literature and co-authored Southwest Heritage, a literary history of the Southwest, in 1938. Mabel Major died in 1974.

Mabel Major was born in 1894 in Ogden, Utah. She received A.B., B.S., and M.A. degrees from the University of Missouri. She served as a member of the English Department faculty at Texas Christian University from 1919 to 1963. She specialized in Southwest literature and worked with fellow TCU faculty member Rebecca W. Smith to prepare the first all-Southwest literature anthology, The Southwest in Literature, published in 1929. She co-authored Southwest Heritage: A Literary History with Bibliography with Smith and T.M. Pearce in 1938 and worked with Pearce again on an anthology of Southwest poetry entitled Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse 1900-1950. She received many awards during her career and, in 1964, TCU conferred upon her the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature. Mabel Major died in 1974.