Autobiography. Women's Studies. Few books in U.S. History have provoked more outrage and debate than THE STORY OF MARY MACLANE did when it was first published in Chicago in 1902. With unprecedented frankness, the 19-year-old author revealed her utter scorn for conformity and puritanism. Periodically[...]
Years ahead of her time, this book flew out of bookstores when it was first published in 1902. A personal history of a Montana teenager that shocked the world and influenced generations of American writers.[...]
Mary MacLanes fortælling er formet som en dagbog over et par måneder i den nittenårige Marys liv i 1901 i minebyen Butte, Montana. Den er et selvportræt af en livstræt men yderst energisk teenagepige, der føler sig helt fremmedgjort fra sine omgivelser. Stilen er højstemt - til tider meget la[...]
Mary MacLane's "I Await the Devil's Coming" is a shocking, brave and intellectually challenging diary of a 19-year-old girl living in Butte, Montana in 1902. Written in potent, raw prose that propelled the author to celebrity upon publication, the book has become almost completely forgotten.
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I, Mary MacLanethe follow-up to I Await the Devil's Comingavailable now from Melville House, with a foreword by Emily Gould Fifteen years separate I Await the Devil's Coming and Mary MacLane's follow-up memoir, I, Mary MacLane (1917). They were years filled with men and affairs, drink and debauchery[...]