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Dear Regina - Flannery O'Connor's Letters from Iowa (Hardcover)
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Dear Regina - Flannery O'Connor's Letters from Iowa (Hardcover)
Series: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University Publications Series
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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.
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