· Customs agents seized and destroyed much of the print run of My First Thirty Years on arrival in the U.S., and the book was banned with particular fervor in Reviews: 2. · My First Thirty Years reveals the story of a woman who grew up in abject poverty in rural Texas during the early s, where she battled ongoing internal wars with herself concerning her family, faith, sexual reckoning, and quest for education at a time when women were not supposed to discuss those things. Beasley's memoir is one of the most brutally honest coming-of-age historical memoirs Author: Gertrude Beasley. · My First Thirty Years was Beasley’s only work, depicting a hardscrabble and intelligent frontier girl attempting, and often failing, to retain her dignity as she strives to overcome the hardships of her roots. Beasley’s voice is compelling, dark, and full of complex motives.
Shortly after its publication, Gertrude Beasley's ferociously eloquent feminist memoir was banned and she herself disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Though British Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell called My First Thirty Years "truthful, which is illegal" and Larry McMurtry pronounced it the finest Texas book of its era, Beasley's words have been all but inaccessible for almost. Edna Gertrude Beasley was truly a woman ahead of her time. Bibliographic information. Title: My First 30 Years: Author: Edna Gertrude Beasley: Publisher: Olympia Press: ISBN: , Export Citation: BiBTeX EndNote RefMan. Gertrude Beasley wrote her memoir My First Thirty Years —the coming-of-age story of a young woman raised in rural Texas poverty—long before these authors shaped the genre, yet her legacy as an American writer has been lost. In , she was a woman who wrote about things nice young ladies didn't talk about: poverty, the struggles of the.
- My First Thirty Years Gertrude Beasley "Thirty years ago, I lay in the womb of a woman, conceived in a sexual act of rape, being carried during the prenatal period by an unwilling and rebellious mother, finally bursting from the womb only to be tormented in a family whose members I despised or pitied, and brought into association with people whom I should never have chosen.". My First Thirty Years was Beasley’s only work, depicting a hardscrabble and intelligent frontier girl attempting, and often failing, to retain her dignity as she strives to overcome the hardships of her roots. Beasley’s voice is compelling, dark, and full of complex motives. "Thirty years ago, I lay in the womb of a woman, conceived in a sexual act of rape, being carried during the prenatal period by an unwilling and rebellious mother, finally bursting from the womb only to be tormented in a family whose members I despised or pitied, and brought into association with.
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