Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary McCarthy
- First Published: 1957
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age
- Locales: Washington
The Work
In Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Mary McCarthy collected eight memoirs that she had previously published in magazines such as The New Yorker and Harper’s Bazaar. Her introductory chapter, “To the Reader,” describes her hope to create as accurate a record as possible of her role in her family’s history, from early childhood until she attended Vassar. In fact, she frequently attempted to check the facts that appeared in the articles with another source. However, as an orphan “the chain of recollection—the collective memory of a...
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