Blooming (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Allen
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1940-1958
- Setting: Ames, Iowa
- Principal Characters: Susan Allen
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: 1950’s, Girls, Maturation or coming of age, Teaching or teachers, Values, 1970’s, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Adolescence, Teenagers, Gender roles, Authors or writers, Midwest, Manners or customs, Social life, Women’s issues, Women, Small-town life
- Locales: Minneapolis, MN, Ames, IA
Form and Content
Susan Allen Toth’s first book, Blooming, is a thematic autobiography of 211 pages, covering the time period of her grade-school years in Ames, Iowa, through her arrival at Smith College to begin her freshman year. Throughout her tracing of formative influences, apprehensions, and successes in her life, there are several important consistencies of attitudes and values that are evident throughout her book.
First of all, she expects good things from life but is apprehensive about how to get them, so she is eager for life experiences. Furthermore,...
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