Blooming (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Allen
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The 1950’s and the 1970’s
- Setting: Ames, Iowa, and Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Principal Characters: Susan Allen, Jennifer Toth
- 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
In Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood, Susan Allen Toth recalls her experiences as a young girl in Ames, Iowa, in the 1950’s. She describes the pleasures and trials of growing up female in a small community during a time when gender roles were clearly defined. Each chapter explores one facet of everyday life as Toth recounts experiences from her junior high and high school years. By beginning each chapter with an incident in her life in the 1970’s as a single mother, teaching college English courses, Toth compares her own girlhood with that of her...
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