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Crossing the Creek

Author : Anna Lillios
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813040875

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Crossing the Creek by Anna Lillios Pdf

One of the twentieth century's most intriguing and complicated literary friendships was that between Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. In death, their reputations have reversed, but in the early 1940s Rawlings had already achieved wild success with her best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Yearling, while Hurston had published Their Eyes Were Watching God to unfavorable critical reviews. When they met, both were at the height of their literary powers. Hurston appears to have sought out Rawlings as a writer who could understand her talent and as a potential patron and champion. Rawlings did become an advocate for Hurston, and by all accounts a warm friendship developed between the two. Yet at every turn, Rawlings's own racism and the societal norms of the Jim Crow South loomed on the horizon, until her friendship with Hurston transformed Rawlings's views on the subject and made her an advocate for racial equality. Anna Lillios's Crossing the Creek is the first book to examine the productive and complex relationship between these two major figures. Is there truth to the story that Hurston offered to work as Rawlings's maid? Why did Rawlings host a tea for Hurston in St. Augustine? In what ways did each write the friendship into their novels? Using interviews with individuals who knew both women, as well as incisive readings of surviving letters, Lillios examines these questions and many others in this remarkable book.

Cross Creek

Author : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547322467

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Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Pdf

'Cross Creek' is an autobiographical account of the author's relationships with her neighbors and her beloved Florida hammocks. The book's author happens to be Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 for her work The Yearling. Her experiences living in Cross Creek serves as the inspiration for said work, and in this publication we get to see exactly the wondrous experiences that Rawlings had living there as a member of the community.

The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling

Author : Ann McCutchan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393353501

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The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling by Ann McCutchan Pdf

A comprehensive and engaging biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the beloved classic The Yearling. Washington, DC, born and Wisconsin educated, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an unlikely author of a coming-of-age novel about a poor central Florida child and his pet fawn—much less one that has become synonymous with Florida literature writ large. Rawlings was a tough, ambitious, and independent woman who refused the conventions of her early-twentieth-century upbringing. Determined to forge a literary career beyond those limitations, she found her voice in the remote, hardscrabble life of Cross Creek, Florida. There, Rawlings purchased a commercial orange grove and discovered a fascinating world out of which to write—and a dialect of the poor, swampland community that the literary world had yet to hear. She employed her sensitive eye, sharp ear for dialogue, and philosophical spirit to bring to life this unknown corner of America in vivid, tender detail, a feat that earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. Her accomplishments came at a price: a failed first marriage, financial instability, a contentious libel suit, alcoholism, and physical and emotional upheaval. With intimate access to Rawlings’s correspondence and revealing early writings, Ann McCutchan uncovers a larger-than-life woman who writes passionately and with verve, whose emotions change on a dime, and who drinks to excess, smokes, swears, and even occasionally joins in on an alligator hunt. The Life She Wished to Live paints a lively portrait of Rawlings, her contemporaries—including her legendary editor, Maxwell Perkins, and friends Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—and the Florida landscape and people that inspired her.

American Women Writers, 1900-1945

Author : Laurie Champion
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313032554

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American Women Writers, 1900-1945 by Laurie Champion Pdf

Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons and not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover for the first time neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and discusses a particular author's biography, her major works and themes, and the critical response to her writings. The entries close with extensive primary and secondary bibliographies, and the volume concludes with a list of works for further reading. The period surveyed by this reference is rich and diverse. Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, two major artistic movements, occurred between 1900 and 1945, and the entries included here demonstrate the significant contributions women made to these movements. The volume as a whole strives to reflect the diversity of American culture and includes entries for African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Chinese American women. It includes well known writers such as Willa Cather and Eudora Welty, along with more neglected ones such as Anita Scott Coleman and Sui Sin Far.

The Rawlings Journal

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : American literature
ISBN : IND:30000026537591

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The Yearling

Author : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338095053

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The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Pdf

'The Yearling' is a dramatic novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. The story follows the life of Young Jody Baxter, who lives with his parents, Ora and Ezra "Penny" Baxter, on a small farm in the backwoods of central Florida in the 1870s. His parents had six other children before him, but they died in infancy. His mother has difficulty bonding with the boy. Jody loves the outdoors and his family. He has wanted a pet for as long as he can remember, but his mother says that they barely have enough food to feed themselves, let alone a pet.

Poems by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Author : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0813014913

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Poems by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Pdf

"A fascinating tapestry woven from the lives of women who had won the right to vote a mere six years earlier. In Songs of a Housewife, we hear the voice of an emerging feminist, a voice that stubbornly and--given the political climate of the 1920s--courageously insists that women be respected. Fans of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings will be surprised and ultimately delighted by this long overdue collection."--Connie May Fowler, author of Sugar Cage and Before Women Had Wings "Makes available for the first time [the] early work of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. . . . Reveals themes, attitudes, phrases, habits of speech . . . and a predilection for irony that characterizes [her] later work."--Peggy W. Prenshaw, Louisiana State University "Rawlings's poetry is surprisingly good. . . . solid, traditional poetry about subjects that will never go out of fashion."--Joel Myerson, University of South Carolina More than a decade before writing The Yearling and Cross Creek, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was a young housewife-journalist living in Rochester, New York. In 1926, the Rochester Times-Union did a trial run of her column-in-verse, Songs of a Housewife. To the editor's surprise, the column proved immensely popular; over the next two years, Rawlings published a poem a day, six days a week, and gained a wide syndication. When she moved to Florida in 1928, however, the poems were forgotten and--until this collection of roughly half of them--never reprinted. In the 250 poems collected here, Rawlings presents homespun advice on such subjects as the trials and tribulations of being a cook, mother, friend, relative, and neighbor. She dedicates many to her favorite subjects: gardening, cooking, pets, and nature. Throughout, her goal is to entertain, to educate, and to give a voice to the housewife who sees her role as a creative and important one. In the process, of course, she also invariably reveals a great deal about herself, and devoted readers will be curious to see how the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings they know and love is evident here, in these early and spirited poems. Because little is known about Rawlings's life during this period, Songs of a Housewife is valuable as commentary on her evolving attitudes as a woman and as a writer, and many of the same themes appear in her later works. As a reflection of the life of a middle-class woman struggling to carve out an independent and fulfilling role for herself, these poems also offer a rare insight into the life of women in the late 1920s. Rodger L. Tarr is University Distinguished Professor of English at Illinois State University. His most recent publications are Short Stories of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (UPF, 1994) and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: A Descriptive Bibliography (1996).

The Private Marjorie

Author : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,Norton S. Baskin,Rodger L. Tarr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0813027837

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The Private Marjorie by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,Norton S. Baskin,Rodger L. Tarr Pdf

The letters, written to her second husband, Norton S. Baskin, from 1938 to her death in 1953, present a sharply drawn picture of the nation as it struggled through the end of the Depression, World War II, and the beginning of the Cold War era, as well as a picture of Rawlings's intriguing life, which ranged from the Florida scrub to the New York literary scene. Above all, they reveal the temperamental writer at her most human - candid, lonely, insecure, bawdy, generous, and always fortified by her love for Baskin.

Marge and Julia

Author : Rodger L. Tarr,Brent E. Kinser,Florence M. Turcotte
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780813070063

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Marge and Julia by Rodger L. Tarr,Brent E. Kinser,Florence M. Turcotte Pdf

Florida Historical Society Rembert Patrick Award The rich friendship of two remarkable women talking to each other in letters Exploring the rich, enduring companionship shared by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Julia Scribner Bigham through never-before-published letters, Marge and Julia provides a revelatory depiction of these two literary women’s experiences in mid-twentieth-century America. Pulitzer Prize–winning author Rawlings was first introduced to Julia Scribner (later Bigham), daughter of publishing magnate Charles Scribner III, shortly after the legendary Scribner House published The Yearling to runaway success. Though Julia’s New York City life was far removed from the rural world of Cross Creek, the two women remained close until Rawlings’s death in 1953, after which Scribner Bigham served as Rawlings’s literary executor. In this documentary edition of 211 of their letters, Rawlings’s and Bigham’s perspectives on the world are woven through over a decade of intimate discussion and advice about relationships, motherhood, mental health, politics, art, and literature. Supplementing the letters with an introduction, explanatory footnotes, and a reminiscence by Scribner Bigham’s eldest daughter, Hildreth Julia Bigham McCarthy, MD, this edition provides historical context and prompts readers to inspect the facets of both women’s complex relationship with issues such as racial discrimination, class, and gender inequality. These letters offer an unprecedented performance of two women’s intimate friendship, one that transcended the limitations of patriarchy as they wrote their lives in letters.

Henry Miller

Author : James M. Decker,Indrek Männiste
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628921250

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Henry Miller by James M. Decker,Indrek Männiste Pdf

Scholarly responses to Henry Miller's works have never been numerous and for many years Miller was not a fashionable writer for literary studies. In fact, there exist only three collections of essays concerning Henry Miller's oeuvre. Since these books appeared, a new generation of international Miller scholars has emerged, one that is re-energizing critical readings of this important American Modernist. Henry Miller: New Perspectives presents new essays on carefully chosen themes within Miller and his intellectual heritage to form the most authoritative collection ever published on this author.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Cross Creek Sampler

Author : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813037247

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Cross Creek Sampler by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Pdf

This book shares excerpts from the short fiction and novels written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings after her arrival in Florida in 1928, including her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Yearling," and her best-selling "Cross Creek."

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Crackers

Author : Sandra Wallus Sammons
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781561644728

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Crackers by Sandra Wallus Sammons Pdf

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings grew up loving to write and hoping to become an author. Later she moved to Florida, where she lived out in the country at Cross Creek in an area called the Big Scrub. She met the people who lived there, the so-called Crackers. Their simple way of life fascinated her, so she wrote stories about them. One of her books, called The Yearling, was about a boy and a pet deer. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her dream of becoming a famous writer had come true. Ages 9-12 Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Blood of My Blood

Author : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,Anne Blythe Meriwether
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813024439

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Blood of My Blood by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,Anne Blythe Meriwether Pdf

Thought to be lost forever, the first novel of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Yearling portrays the life of a young artist caught in a destructive relationship with her overprotective mother. (General Fiction)

Arranging Stories

Author : Heather A. Fox
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496840493

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Arranging Stories by Heather A. Fox Pdf

Between the 1880s and the 1940s, opportunities for southern white women writers increased dramatically, bolstered by readers’ demands for southern stories in northern periodicals. Confined by magazine requirements and social expectations, writers often relied on regional settings and tropes to attract publishers and readers before publishing work in a collection. Selecting and ordering magazine stories for these collections was not arbitrary or dictated by editors, despite a male-dominated publishing industry. Instead, it allowed writers to privilege stories, or to contextualize a story by its proximity to other tales, as a form of social commentary. For Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Katherine Anne Porter—the authors featured in this book—publishing a volume of stories enabled them to construct a narrative framework of their own. Arranging Stories: Framing Social Commentary in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers is as much about how stories are constructed as how they are told. The book examines correspondence, manuscripts, periodicals, and first editions of collections. Each collection’s textual history serves as a case study for changes in the periodical marketplace and demonstrates how writers negotiated this marketplace to publish stories and garner readership. The book also includes four tables, featuring collected stories’ arrangements and publication histories, and twenty-five illustrations, featuring periodical publications, unpublished letters, and manuscript fragments obtained from nine on-site and digital archives. Short story collections guide readers through a spatial experience, in which both individual stories and the ordering of those stories become a framework for interpreting meaning. Arranging Stories invites readings that complicate how we engage collected works.