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Keefe, Maryellen Veronica.

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Sally Benson, her life and fiction: Illuminating five decades of middle-class, twentieth century America.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sally Benson, her life and fiction: Illuminating five decades of middle-class, twentieth century America./
Author:	Keefe, Maryellen Veronica.
Description:	564 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-03, Section: A, page: 0907.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-03A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3085471

Sally Benson, her life and fiction: Illuminating five decades of middle-class, twentieth century America.
Keefe, Maryellen Veronica.

Sally Benson, her life and fiction: Illuminating five decades of middle-class, twentieth century America. - 564 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-03, Section: A, page: 0907.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2003.

My dissertation is a biographical study of Sally Benson (1897–1972), contributor to the <italic>New Yorker</italic> for many years but best remembered now for <italic>Junior Miss</italic> and <italic>Meet Me in St. Louis</italic>. My project depends almost entirely on interviews with Benson's associates and family and unpublished archival material held by Benson's daughter, Barbara Benson Golseth of Tucson, Arizona. For other material I have used the <italic> New Yorker</italic> Records at the New York City Public Library, Special Collections, on 42<super>nd</super> Street and Fifth Avenue. I have also examined Benson's fiction for autobiographical content.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, American.

Sally Benson, her life and fiction: Illuminating five decades of middle-class, twentieth century America.
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520 $a One of the best known and critically acclaimed writers of her day, Benson emerges from my study as a woman who succeeded early in a profession dominated by men. Her economy of language, her witty, often poignant portraits of lonely women, awkward adolescents, and middle-class suburbanites, her skill in handling the short story form—all made Benson a household name among magazine readers from 1929 to 1956. Readers liked her ability to see through people and expose their weaknesses with humor and sympathy. Benson brought a broad geographical perspective to her work, having lived in various venues: turn-of-the century St. Louis, Missouri, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin; pre-World War I and Jazz Age Manhattan; urban, post-Depression New York; and pre-and post World War II suburban Connecticut. She is important because she gave the woman's point of view on American life from many vantage points—the adolescent, the wife and working mother, the professional, woman writer—to name a few.
520 $a My work on Sally Benson constitutes the first critical biography of this significant twentieth-century, American writer and the places, people, and events that inform her fiction. It portrays an atypical woman's journey from the mid-west to New York to Hollywood, a journey that to a twentieth-century American writer like Nathanael West seemed quintessentially American. Sally Benson exemplified the transition from domesticity to the marketplace, becoming a full-fledged career woman while juggling her responsibilities as wife and mother.
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