123 records matched your query       

Author:

Baker, Christina Looper, 1939-

Title:

In a generous spirit : a first-person biography of Myra Page / Christina Looper Baker ; foreword by Alice Kessler-Harris ; afterword by Mary Frederickson.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c1996

Description:

xxiii, 273 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Page, Myra,--1897---Biography.
Women authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Women communists--United States--Biography.

Other Authors:

Page, Myra, 1897-

Notes:

Includes text from interviews with and narrative biography of the subject. Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-261) and index.

Contents:

Rebel roots -- Thwarted sisters -- Southern discomfort -- Choosing freedom -- Breaking away -- Union novice -- Finding love -- Carolina mill hands -- Gathering strength -- Radical ferment -- Writing left -- New world -- Soviet Yankees -- Finding shelter -- Another South -- Active women -- Home fronts -- Red scare -- New left -- Standing strong.

Series:

Women in American history

ISBN:

9780252065439 (paper)
0252065433 (paper)
9780252022340 (cloth)
0252022343 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)33245205

LCCN:

95041756

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)