How I Grew (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary McCarthy
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1925-1933
- Setting: Minneapolis, Seattle, and Poughkeepsie, New York
- Principal Characters: Mary McCarthy, Harold Cooper Johnsrud, Ethel (Ted) Rosenberg, Mark Sullivan, Forrest Crosby, Miss Dorothy Atkinson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Memory, Intellectuals, Adolescence, Teenagers, Sex or sexuality, Authors or writers, Education or educators, 1920’s, 1930’s, College life, Secondary education
- Locales: Seattle, WA, Minneapolis, MN, Poughkeepsie, NY
Form and Content
In How I Grew, Mary McCarthy constructs an intellectual autobiography of her adolescence, covering roughly the eight years between ages thirteen and twenty-one. In a sense a sequel to her earlier autobiographical work. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), it is the story of the orphaned McCarthy following the move from the Catholic, Minneapolis household of her McCarthy relatives to the Seattle household of her Protestant grandfather and Jewish grandmother, Harold Preston and Augusta Morgenstern Preston. McCarthy describes her intellectual...
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