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| birth_place =[[Cross Plains, Texas]], U.S. |
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| death_place = [[Islip, New York]], U.S. |
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'''Edna Gertrude Beasley''' (June 20, 1892 - July 25, 1955) was an American writer and [[memoirist]]. A [[feminist]], her controversial 1925 autobiography, ''My First Thirty Years'', received some favorable reviews but was also [[Censorship|suppressed]], and she soon after disappeared. Decades after her death, researchers found that when she returned to the United States in the late 1920s, she was committed to a state mental asylum in [[New York (state)|New York]] for the rest of her life.<ref name=Streitfeld>{{Cite news |last=Streitfeld |first=David |date=2018-12-19 |title=Overlooked No More: Gertrude Beasley, Who Wrote an Uncompromising Memoir, Then Vanished |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/obituaries/gertrude-beasley-overlooked.html |access-date=2020-05-21 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=Specht>{{Cite magazine |last=Specht |first=Mary Helen |date=2011-05-17 |title=The Disappearance of Gertrude Beasley |url=https://www.texasobserver.org/the-disappearance-of-gertrude-beasley/ |magazine=Texas Observer |language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-21}}</ref><ref name="Graham">{{Cite magazine |last=Graham |first=Don |date=2000-07-01 |title=A Woman of Independent Means |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/a-woman-of-independent-means/ |magazine=Texas Monthly |language=en |access-date=2020-05-21}}</ref> |
'''Edna Gertrude Beasley''' (June 20, 1892 - July 25, 1955) was an American writer and [[memoirist]]. A [[feminist]], her controversial 1925 autobiography, ''My First Thirty Years'', received some favorable reviews but was also [[Censorship|suppressed]], and she soon after disappeared. Decades after her death, researchers found that when she returned to the United States in the late 1920s, she was committed to a state mental asylum in [[New York (state)|New York]] for the rest of her life.<ref name=Streitfeld>{{Cite news |last=Streitfeld |first=David |date=2018-12-19 |title=Overlooked No More: Gertrude Beasley, Who Wrote an Uncompromising Memoir, Then Vanished |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/obituaries/gertrude-beasley-overlooked.html |access-date=2020-05-21 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=Specht>{{Cite magazine |last=Specht |first=Mary Helen |date=2011-05-17 |title=The Disappearance of Gertrude Beasley |url=https://www.texasobserver.org/the-disappearance-of-gertrude-beasley/ |magazine=Texas Observer |language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-21}}</ref><ref name="Graham">{{Cite magazine |last=Graham |first=Don |date=2000-07-01 |title=A Woman of Independent Means |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/a-woman-of-independent-means/ |magazine=Texas Monthly |language=en |access-date=2020-05-21}}</ref> |
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==Biography== |
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Edna Gertrude Beasley was born on June 20, 1892 near [[Cross Plains, Texas]]. Her father was an itinerant, subsistence farmer. She was the ninth-child of a 13-child family in a poor family, and according to Beasely, her own birth was the product of marital rape. After her last sibling was born, her mother left the marriage, with the children, and moved to [[Abilene, Texas]].<ref name=Streitfeld/><ref name=Specht/> |
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Unlike the rest of her family, Beasley was interested in school and education. She became a teacher and obtained a teaching degree. She left Texas to pursue a masters in education at the [[University of Chicago]] in 1918.<ref>{{Cite magazine |year=1921 |title=The University of Chicago Magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wjrOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=university+of+chicago+Edna+Gertrude+Beasley&source=bl&ots=m-Ke7GKZCI&sig=ACfU3U0opzy1Ro9ws8_Hr-BUzm3OCrjaCw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwim7oLXwcfpAhUaa80KHWkAAjUQ6AEwB3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=university%2520of%2520chicago%2520Edna%2520Gertrude%2520Beasley&f=false |language=en |edition=March |publisher=University of Chicago, Alumni Association |volume=XIII |issue=5 |page=193}}</ref> According to a later newspaper article, she also worked as a journalist in Chicago.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Texas Reads: More About Gertrude Beasley |url=http://texasreads.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-about-gertrude-beasley.html |date=2009-08-21 |website=Texas Reads |access-date=2020-05-22}}</ref> |
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==Work== |
==Work== |
Revision as of 13:10, 22 May 2020
Gertrude Beasley | |
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Born | Edna Gertrude Beasley June 20, 1892 near Cross Plains, Texas, U.S. |
Died | July 25, 1955 Islip, New York, U.S. | (aged 63)
Occupation | Writer, teacher |
Nationality | American |
Notable works | My First Thirty Years |
Edna Gertrude Beasley (June 20, 1892 - July 25, 1955) was an American writer and memoirist. A feminist, her controversial 1925 autobiography, My First Thirty Years, received some favorable reviews but was also suppressed, and she soon after disappeared. Decades after her death, researchers found that when she returned to the United States in the late 1920s, she was committed to a state mental asylum in New York for the rest of her life.[1][2][3]
Biography
Edna Gertrude Beasley was born on June 20, 1892 near Cross Plains, Texas. Her father was an itinerant, subsistence farmer. She was the ninth-child of a 13-child family in a poor family, and according to Beasely, her own birth was the product of marital rape. After her last sibling was born, her mother left the marriage, with the children, and moved to Abilene, Texas.[1][2]
Unlike the rest of her family, Beasley was interested in school and education. She became a teacher and obtained a teaching degree. She left Texas to pursue a masters in education at the University of Chicago in 1918.[4] According to a later newspaper article, she also worked as a journalist in Chicago.[5]
Work
- Beasley, Gertrude (1925). My First Thirty Years. Paris: Contact editions. OCLC 762568276.
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References
- ^ a b Streitfeld, David (2018-12-19). "Overlooked No More: Gertrude Beasley, Who Wrote an Uncompromising Memoir, Then Vanished". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ a b Specht, Mary Helen (2011-05-17). "The Disappearance of Gertrude Beasley". Texas Observer. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ Graham, Don (2000-07-01). "A Woman of Independent Means". Texas Monthly. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ "The University of Chicago Magazine". Vol. XIII, no. 5 (March ed.). University of Chicago, Alumni Association. 1921. p. 193.
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(help) - ^ "Texas Reads: More About Gertrude Beasley". Texas Reads. 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2020-05-22.