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The Erasure of Grace : Reconnecting Peyton Place to its Author

Author: Creadick, Anna G.

Date: 2009-12

Publication: Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature

Volume: 42

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…

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

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

Author: Toth, Emily

Date: 1981 December

Publication: The Journal of Popular Culture

Volume: 15

Language: English

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…

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