M. V. Sexton Speaking | Overview
M. V. Sexton Speaking is the story of Martha Venable Sexton's sixteenth summer, a summer of self-discovery and initiation into the adult world of work, play and complex but rewarding relationships. When Martha's guardian, Great Aunt Gert, insists she find a summer job, Martha is, at first, reluctant: "Worse than anything," she says, "I hated to be pushed. My resistance juices go into action even if it's something I might, left to myself, be naturally inclined to do." By the novel's end, however, Martha is thanking Aunt Gert "for making me go to work." "It has," she claims, "changed...
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