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Shirley Abbott


Born
November 16, 1934


Shirley Jean Abbott Tomkievicz (born November 16, 1934) is magazine editor and writer, most noted for her three volumes of memoirs.

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Abbott began her career as an editor, writer, and historian in 1959 when she was hired by Horizon magazine as a fact checker. In 1973, she was appointed Horizon’s editor-in-chief, a post she held until the magazine closed three years later. Abbott has written articles for Smithsonian, Lear’s, Gourmet, Harper’s, American Heritage, Southern Living, McCall’s, Glamour, and Boston Review, as well as for newspapers.

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Average rating: 3.7 · 717 ratings · 60 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors
The Bookmaker's Daughter: A...
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Womenfolks: Growing Up Down...
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The Future of Love
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Love's Apprentice
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Amor, Amoris
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Historic Charleston
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The Abbott Anthology
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“If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.”
― Shirley Abbott, Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
tags: independence, scotch-irish, strength
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“We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.”
― Shirley Abbott
tags: ancestry, family, history, knowledge
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“They founded a society based not upon currency and commodities but on the elementary notion that if you failed to raise enough to eat, you would go hungry.”
― Shirley Abbott, Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
tags: scotch-irish, work-ethic
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