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• The Erasure of Grace : Reconnecting Peyton Place to its Author

  Author: Creadick, Anna G.

  Date: 2009-12

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 60637308

  Critical article on the connection between the public reception of the 1950s breakout novel, "Peyton Place," and the attitudes and public persona of its author, Grace Metalious. How Metalious' life might be read in the depictions and trials of her novel's female characters. How the fictional town of Peyton Place - based on Metalious' New Hampshire home - resonated with readers across the United States.

  Tags Belmont NH, Criticism and Review, Fiction and Literature, Film and Television, Gender and Sexuality, Gilmanton NH, Laconia NH, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, New Hampshire, United States
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  The Erasure of Grace : Reconnecting Peyton Place to its Author

  Author: Creadick, Anna G.

  Date: 2009-12

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 60637308

  Critical article on the connection between the public reception of the 1950s breakout novel, "Peyton Place," and the attitudes and public persona of its author, Grace Metalious. How Metalious' life might be read in the depictions and trials of her novel's female characters. How the fictional town of Peyton Place - based on Metalious' New Hampshire home - resonated with readers across the United States.

  Tags Belmont NH, Criticism and Review, Fiction and Literature, Film and Television, Gender and Sexuality, Gilmanton NH, Laconia NH, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, New Hampshire, United States
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  Seamless Hosiery Industry of Laconia, New Hampshire

  Author: Carls, J. Norman

  Date: 1937-04-00

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 1567395

  Article describing the state of hosiery mills in Laconia, New Hampshire in the late 1930s: obstacles to effective production, descriptions of economic advantages, suggestions for improvement. Historical background from the origins of the first Laconia hosiery in 1847. Mill closures beginning in 1923: their causes and some of their impacts. Current 1930s industrial competition between Laconia mills and similar producers in Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee. Includes black and white photographs.

  Tags Belmont NH, Binghamton NY, Blackstone River Valley, Franklin NH, Georgia, Hillsboro NH, Laconia NH, Lake Winnipesaukee NH, Merrimack River Valley, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- History, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Tilton NH