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First published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
In her biography of writer Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964, née Mary
Flannery), Mary Carpenter introduces young readers to one of the
most renowned American authors. With an accessible style of
writing, Flannery O'Connor gives younger readers an overview of
O'Connor's life and examines the influences, such as her family,
region, and education, that helped her become one of the most
respected fiction writers of the twentieth century. In a frank but
age-appropriate manner, Carpenter discusses the writer's rural
southern upbringing, her relationship to race, her chronic lupus,
and her Catholic faith. The book will appeal to younger (nine- to
ten-year-old) readers with sophisticated interests along with, and
maybe more importantly, those older middle-school students who are
not yet skillful readers and who thus often search with difficulty
for interesting topics presented in books of a shorter length than
most written for that age group. Mary Flannery's life is
inspirational. Her childhood in Savannah, Georgia, was both
difficult and privileged. During the Great Depression, her father
had to leave home to find work and then became very ill. Later in
small-town Milledgeville, Georgia, Flannery lived with her mother
and an extended family of strong women. Flannery's ability to know
her mind at an early age helped her build an artistic reputation
starting in high school. Through her fiction, she went on to become
a role model for unconventional girls everywhere and for anyone who
dreams of becoming a writer.
Daughter of a Unitarian minister and schoolmaster, the penal
reformer and educationist Mary Carpenter (1807 77) grew up in a
pious family with a strong sense of obligation to those who were
less fortunate. Moved by the appalling circumstances of destitute
children in Bristol, she established her first ragged school in
1846. In her bid to improve the difficult lives of juvenile
delinquents, her enlightened philosophy was one of rehabilitation
rather than retribution, emphasising the importance of giving
children a sense of self-worth. These views form the basis of this
landmark work, first published in 1851. Marshalling a range of
evidence in support of her argument, Carpenter highlights the need
for radical change in the treatment of young offenders. Her
lobbying bore fruit in England with the passage of the Youthful
Offenders Act (1854), described as 'the Magna Carta of the
neglected child'.
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