This Is Not the Ivy League A Memoir

Name: This Is Not the Ivy League A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780803245204

ISBN-10: 0803245203

ISBN-13: 9780803245204

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Authors: Mary Clearman Blew

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Mary Clearman Blew’s education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband.This Is Not the Ivy Leagueis her account of what it was to be that girl, and then that woman—pressured by husband and parents to be the conventional wife of the 1950s, persisting in her pursuit of an education, trailed by a reluctant husband and small children through graduate school, and finally entering the job market with a PhD in English only to find a whole new set of pressures and prejudices.This memoir is Blew’s behind-the-scenes account…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 3/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 226
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Mary Clearman Blew is Professor of English & Creative Writing at the University of Idaho, Moscow. She is the author of "Bone Deep in Landscape", "All But the Waltz", "Balsamroot" (University of Oklahoma Press) & "Sister Coyote: Montana Stories" & is coeditor of "Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women's Writing". 050.