Marge and Julia (eBook, PDF)

The Correspondence between Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Julia Scribner Bigham
Redaktion: Tarr, Rodger L.; Turcotte, Florence M.; Kinser, Brent E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Florida Historical Society Rembert Patrick Award

The rich friendship of two remarkable women talking to each other in letters











Pulitzer Prizewinning 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813070063
• Artikelnr.: 75639878

Autorenporträt

Rodger L. Tarr is University Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, at Illinois State University. He is the editor of Max and Marjorie: The Correspondence between Maxwell E. Perkins and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and The Private Marjorie: The Love Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to Norton S. Baskin. Brent E. Kinser is professor of English at Western Carolina University. With Tarr, he is coeditor of The Uncollected Writings of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s Cross Creek Sampler: A Book of Quotations. Florence M. Turcotte is the literary manuscripts archivist at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, where she has served as curator of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Papers since 2005.