Bibliograph

This is not the Ivy League, a memoir, Mary Clearman Blew

Type

Label

This is not the Ivy League, a memoir, Mary Clearman Blew

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This is not the Ivy League

Responsibility statement

Mary Clearman Blew

Series statement

American lives

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

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 League is 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

Target audience

adult

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