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Charles Scribners and Sons
Correspondence
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Female Community
Feminism
Florida History
Florida Writers
Hildreth Scribner Bigham
History and Politics
Julia Scribner Bigham
letter-writing
Literary Aesthetics
Literary Friendship
literary history
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
mid-twentieth-century America
Music and Art History
Publishing History
Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Rawlings Archive at Smathers Library
World War II Correspondence
Product details
- ISBN 9780813069289
- Weight: 287g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2022
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Exploring the rich, enduring companionship shared by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Julia Scribner Bigham through never-before-published letters, Marge and Julia provides a revelatory depiction of these two literary women’s experiences in mid-twentieth-century America.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Rawlings was first introduced to Julia Scribner (later Bigham), daughter of publishing magnate Charles Scribner III, shortly after the legendary House of Scribner published The Yearling to runaway success. Though Julia’s New York City life was far removed from the rural world of Cross Creek, the two women remained close until Rawlings’s death in 1953, after which Scribner Bigham served as Rawlings’s literary executor. In this documentary edition of 211 of their letters, Rawlings’s and Bigham’s perspectives on the world are woven through over a decade of intimate discussion and advice about relationships, motherhood, mental health, politics, art, and literature.
Supplementing the letters with an introduction, explanatory footnotes, and a reminiscence by Scribner Bigham’s eldest daughter, Hildreth Scribner Bigham, MD, this edition provides historical context and prompts readers to inspect the facets of both women’s complex relationship with issues such as racial discrimination, class, and gender inequality. These letters offer an unprecedented performance of two women’s intimate friendship, one that transcended the limitations of patriarchy as they wrote their lives in letters.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Rawlings was first introduced to Julia Scribner (later Bigham), daughter of publishing magnate Charles Scribner III, shortly after the legendary House of Scribner published The Yearling to runaway success. Though Julia’s New York City life was far removed from the rural world of Cross Creek, the two women remained close until Rawlings’s death in 1953, after which Scribner Bigham served as Rawlings’s literary executor. In this documentary edition of 211 of their letters, Rawlings’s and Bigham’s perspectives on the world are woven through over a decade of intimate discussion and advice about relationships, motherhood, mental health, politics, art, and literature.
Supplementing the letters with an introduction, explanatory footnotes, and a reminiscence by Scribner Bigham’s eldest daughter, Hildreth Scribner Bigham, MD, this edition provides historical context and prompts readers to inspect the facets of both women’s complex relationship with issues such as racial discrimination, class, and gender inequality. These letters offer an unprecedented performance of two women’s intimate friendship, one that transcended the limitations of patriarchy as they wrote their lives in letters.
Rodger L. Tarr is University Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, at Illinois State University. He is the editor of Max and Marjorie: The Correspondence between Maxwell E. Perkins and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and The Private Marjorie: The Love Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to Norton S. Baskin.
Brent E. Kinser is professor of English at Western Carolina University. With Tarr, he is coeditor of The Uncollected Writings of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s Cross Creek Sampler: A Book of Quotations.
Florence M. Turcotte is the literary manuscripts archivist at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, where she has served as curator of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Papers since 2005.
Brent E. Kinser is professor of English at Western Carolina University. With Tarr, he is coeditor of The Uncollected Writings of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s Cross Creek Sampler: A Book of Quotations.
Florence M. Turcotte is the literary manuscripts archivist at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, where she has served as curator of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Papers since 2005.
