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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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  Fatherless and Dispossessed : Grace Metalious as a French‐Canadian Writer

  Author: Toth, Emily

  Date: 1981 December

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 1754751

  Article profiling Manchester, New Hampshire native writer, Grace (de Repentigny) Metalious. Summary and analysis of her best-selling scandalous novel, "Peyton Place," her reportedly favorite novel, "The Tight White Collar," and her final work, "No Adam in Eden." The autobiographical turn of Metalious's writing and the elements of her personal and family lives that shaped her fiction. Featured in an edition of the Journal of Popular Culture entitled, "Canadian Women Writers."

  Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Alcohol and Drugs, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Gilmanton NH, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Manchester NH, Personal History: Biography and Oral History
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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