Mary MacLane — I Await the Devil's Coming with Cathryn Halverson - Lost Ladies of Lit

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Long before 'Brat Summer,' America was taken with Mary MacLane, a defiant and wildly egotistical 19-year-old resident of Butte, Montana, whose confessional diary implored the “kind devil” to deliver her from a life of bourgeois boredom. Professor Cathryn Halverson from Sweden’s Södertörn University joins us for this episode to discuss MacLane’s life, angst and the reading public’s reaction to her adolescent intensity.

Mentioned in this episode:

I Await the Devil’s Coming/The Story of Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane (Project Gutenberg)

MTV’s “My So-Called Life”

Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

Herbert S. Stone & Co.

Marie Bashkirtseff

The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff: I am the Most Interesting Woman of All Volume I and Lust for Glory Volume II

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

“Men Who Have Made Love to Me”

I, Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane

Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly by Cathryn Halverson

Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West by Cathryn Halverson

Playing House in the American West: Western Women’s Life Narratives by Cathryn Halverson