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03564aam a2200445Ii 4500 001 7795993C13BB11ED9C55A27642ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220804010129 008 220101s2022 gau b 001 0deng 010 $a 2021062321 020 $a 0820361852 020 $a 9780820361857 035 $a (OCoLC)1285565189 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d IWP $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a O'Connor, Flannery. 240 10 $a Correspondence. $k Selections 245 10 $a Dear Regina : $b Flannery O'Connor's letters from Iowa / $c edited by Monica Carol Miller. 263 $a 2205 264 1 $a Athens : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 1 volume : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 23 cm 490 0 $a A publication of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Cast of characters -- Academic year 1945-1946 -- Academic year 1946-1947 -- Fall semester 1947 -- Coda. 520 $a "Dear Regina offers a remarkable window into the early years of one of America's best-known literary figures. While at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop from 1945 to 1948, Flannery O'Connor wrote to her mother Regina Cline O'Connor (who she addressed by her first name) nearly every day and sometimes more than once a day. The complete correspondence of more than six hundred letters is housed at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. From that number, Miller selects 486 letters to show us a young adult learning to adjust to life on her own for the first time. In these letters, O'Connor shares details about living in a boardinghouse and subsisting on canned food and hot-plate dinners, and she asks for advice about a wide range of topics, including how to assuage her relatives' concerns about her well-being and how to buy whiskey to use for cough medicine. These letters, which are being published for the first time with the unprecedented permission of the Mary Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust, also offer readers important insights into O'Connor's intellectually formative years, when her ideas about writing, race, class, and interpersonal relationships were developing and changing. Her preoccupation with money, employment, and other practical matters reveals a side of O'Connor that we do not often see in her previously published letters. Most importantly, the letters show us her relationship with her mother in a much more intimate, positive light than we have seen before. The importance of this aspect of the letters cannot be overstated, given that so much literary analysis conflates her and Regina with the "sour, deformed daughters and self-righteous mothers" that critic Louise Westling sees so often in O'Connor's work"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a O'Connor, Flannery $x Correspondence. 600 10 $a O'Connor, Regina Cline. 610 20 $a Iowa Writers' Workshop. 650 0 $a Women authors, American $y 20th century $x Biography. 650 0 $a Creative writing (Higher education). 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters. 700 1 $a O'Connor, Regina Cline. 700 1 $a Miller, Monica Carol, $d 1974- 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031112.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230804011712.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20230104013556.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804025028.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7795993C13BB11ED9C55A27642ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search