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Katharine Butler Hathaway (1890–1942)

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Katharine Butler Hathaway (1890-1942) grew up in Salem, Massachusetts. After attending Radcliffe College, she lived and wrote in Maine, and later in New York City and Paris, where she was a part of the vibrant artists' culture of the 1920s. In the early 1930s she returned to Maine with her husband. visa mer The Little Locksmith was published a year after her death visa färre

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1890
Avled
1942
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female
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USA
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Born in Baltimore, Maryland. She spent her childhood in Salem, Massachusetts where she suffered tuberculosis of the spine and had to lie flat on her back for ten years. Her education consisted of one year at Abbot Academy, Andover and another year at Miss McClintock's School, Boston. She entered Radcliffe in the fall of 1910 as a special student and attended to 1912. Although she did not graduate, she was made a member of the class of 1914. She married Daniel Rugg Hathaway in 1932, lived at Blue Hill, Maine and died in 1942. She wrote autobiographical works, children's stories, and poems.

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The Little Locksmith by Katherine Butler Hathaway (written in 1942) by a woman who was treated for Spinal TB (strapped to a board for 10 years from age 5-15) but who ultimately became a writer and painter (better at the first), bought a house in Castine and ultimately in Blue Hill. Her memoir is beautifully written, psychologically astute, and fascinating. She predates feminism and Freudianism and other isms so that one gets a very authentic sense of who she is--and she can be brutally honest, especially about the role the mother played in denigrating her daughter because she was trying to protect her. And it was really sad as the child assumed the mother was speaking truth that no one would ever want to have a relationship or marry her. Not true as it turned out, but she died before she could write this part of her life. Died in 1942.I didn't read about her or read the forward or back of the book so read it cold except for the glowing recommendation of a friend up here who sent it to me. (Gete didn't like it at all. Not enough plot. I also gave copies to Bess, Carolyn, and Barbara.)… (mer)
 
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