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Exploring the rich, enduring companionship shared by Marjorie
Kinnan Rawlings and Julia Scribner Bigham through
never-before-published letters, Marge and Julia provides a
revelatory depiction of these two literary women's experiences in
mid-twentieth-century America. Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Rawlings was first introduced to Julia Scribner (later Bigham),
daughter of publishing magnate Charles Scribner III, shortly after
the legendary House of Scribner published The Yearling to runaway
success. Though Julia's New York City life was far removed from the
rural world of Cross Creek, the two women remained close until
Rawlings's death in 1953, after which Scribner Bigham served as
Rawlings's literary executor. In this documentary edition of 211 of
their letters, Rawlings's and Bigham's perspectives on the world
are woven through over a decade of intimate discussion and advice
about relationships, motherhood, mental health, politics, art, and
literature. Supplementing the letters with an introduction,
explanatory footnotes, and a reminiscence by Scribner Bigham's
eldest daughter, Hildreth Scribner Bigham, MD, this edition
provides historical context and prompts readers to inspect the
facets of both women's complex relationship with issues such as
racial discrimination, class, and gender inequality. These letters
offer an unprecedented performance of two women's intimate
friendship, one that transcended the limitations of patriarchy as
they wrote their lives in letters.
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