Send us a textLong before 'Brat Summer,' America was taken with Mary MacLane, a defiant and wildly egotistical 19-year-old resident of Butte, Montana, whose confessional diary implored the “kind devil” to deliver her from a life of bourgeois boredom. Professor Cathryn Halverson from Sweden’s Södertörn University joins us for this episode to discuss MacLane’s life, angst and the reading public’s reaction to her adolescent intensity. Mentioned in this episode:I Await the Devil’s Coming/The Story of Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane (Project Gutenberg)MTV’s “My So-Called Life”Kate Chopin’s The AwakeningHerbert S. Stone & Co.Marie BashkirtseffThe Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff: I am the Most Interesting Woman of All Volume I and Lust for Glory Volume IIAre You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume“Men Who Have Made Love to Me” I, Mary MacLane by Mary MacLaneFaraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly by Cathryn HalversonMaverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West by Cathryn HalversonPlaying House in the American West: Western Women’s Life Narratives by Cathryn HalversonSupport the showFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.comSubscribe to our substack newsletter. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

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