In a Generous Spirit: A First-Person Biography of Myra Page (Women in American History) - Softcover

Baker, Christina Looper; Page, Myra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252065433 ISBN 13: 9780252065439

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Dorothy Markey's family and culture prepared her to be a proper southern lady. Yet Markey broke free of her cultural bonds and became, instead, a feminist, a communist, and, under the pen name Myra Page, a radical journalist and novelist. Her activism on behalf of social justice, racial equality, and women's rights spanned the 1920s through her death in 1993.
Page's work carried her far from her Virginia home to Moscow, Mexico, the rural South, and New York. As a journalist she wrote for the Daily Worker, the New Masses, Working Woman, and Southern Worker. Her novels captured workers' struggles in an authentic voice: The Gathering Storm, Daughter of the Hills, and Moscow Yankee.
With consummate skill, Christina Baker weaves together historical research, her own and others' conversations with Page, and Page's letters and other writings. The resulting narrative is a vivid recreation of the life of an uncommon woman and her more than seventy years of striving for the things she believed in.

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Christina Looper Baker is a professor of English in the University of Maine system.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252065433
• ISBN 13: 9780252065439
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312
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