The Story of Mary MacLane by Mary Maclane

The Story of Mary MacLane by Mary Maclane

The Story of Mary MacLane shocked the literary world when it was published in April 1902. It sold 100,000 copies in its first month, an astonishing number then and now. Within a few years it had been translated into 36 languages, and writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, and Gertrude Stein lauded it as an important influence in their quests for a new American style. The author was a 19-year-old girl from the raw, masculine mining town of Butte, Montana. With the publication of this book, Mary MacLane became an overnight sensation. She was called the 'Wild Woman of Butte, ' a Bohemian, a radical, a feminist, a rebel. Although MacLane went on to write other books, none had the impact of this one, which remains a tour de force about life, love, and longing. Fresh, frank, and funny, 'The Story of Mary MacLane' is as powerful today as it was provocative when first published.

Mary MacLane (1881-1929) was a controversial Canadian-born American writer whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing. She was known as the Wild Woman of Butte. MacLane was a very popular author for her time, scandalizing the populace with her shocking bestselling first memoir and to a lesser extent her two following books. She was considered wild and uncontrolled, a reputation she nurtured, and was openly bisexual as well as a vocal feminist. In her writings, she compared herself to another frank young memoirist, Marie Bashkirtseff, who died a few years after MacLane was born, and H.L. Mencken called her, the Butte Bashkirtseff. - from Wikipedia.com

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ISBN 13	9781931832199
ISBN 10	1931832196
Title	The Story of Mary MacLane
Author	Mary Maclane
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Riverbend Publishing
Year published	2002-11-01
Number of pages	256
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