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Mary MacLane

Born

in Winnipeg, Canada

May 01, 1881

Died

August 01, 1929

Website

http://www.marymaclane.com/mary/

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

Influences

Marie Bashkirtseff

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Mary MacLane was a controversial Canadian-born American writer whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing. MacLane was known as the "Wild Woman of Butte."

MacLane was a very popular author for her time, scandalizing the populace with her shocking bestselling first memoir and to a lesser extent her two following books. She was considered wild and uncontrolled, a reputation she nurtured, and was openly bisexual as well as a vocal feminist. In her writings, she compared herself to another frank young memoirist, Marie Bashkirtseff, who died a few years after MacLane was born, and H. L. Mencken called her "the Butte Bashkirtseff." ...more

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	I Await the Devil's Coming by Mary MacLane, Jessa Crispin (Introduction) 3.60 avg rating — 1,963 ratings — published 1902 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I, Mary MacLane: A Diary of Human Days 4.12 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1917 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of Mary Maclane 3.77 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1902	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Friend Annabel Lee 3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1903 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader by Mary MacLane, Michael R. Brown (Editor), Bojana Novakovic (Foreword) 4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1902 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tender Darkness: A Mary Maclane Anthology by Mary MacLane, Elisabeth Pruitt (Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snille Djevel befri meg – en Mary MacLane mixteip by Mary MacLane, Siri Katinka Valdez (Translator) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of Mary MacLane 2.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Marriage really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.”
― Mary MacLane, I Await the Devil's Coming

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“People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.”
― Mary MacLane, The Story of Mary Maclane

tags: egotism, individuality

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“I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.”
― Mary MacLane, The Story of Mary Maclane

tags: self

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