In her essay A Sweet Devouring, EW
remembered her voracious early appetite for books, and her delighted discovery of the local library. She was not discriminating, and would read straight through a series of...
Education
G. B. Stern
At first Gladys was taught at home by governesses: the stout, comical angel Fräulein Sanders,
Stern, G. B. Monogram. Chapman and Hall, 1936.
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followed by several lunatics, one elderly nymphomaniac (unsuccessful) and a prostitute
Stern, G. B. Monogram. Chapman and Hall, 1936.
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(that is, a governess who was dismissed...
Textual Production
Tillie Olsen
By the time she entered high school she was keeping a journal in assorted and undated notebooks containing poems, bits of stories, drafts of letters, and reflections.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
