Cautious rebel : a biography of Susan Clay Sawitzky / Lindsey Apple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Apple, Lindsey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sawitzky, Susan Clay, 1897-1981.

Sawitzky, Susan Clay.

Women--Kentucky--Lexington--Biography.

Women.

Kentucky--Lexington.

Lexington (Ky.)--Biography.

Lexington (Ky.).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [1997]

Summary:

For sixty years Susan Clay Sawitzky struggled against the values assimilated in her youth, ideals shared by her Old World husband and American society in general. She wrote poignantly about confinement and freedom in the privacy of her study and published a small amount of poetry and art history. But she was not an exceptional woman; she could not take the risks necessary to achieve the degree of success she coveted. The detailed record she left reveals the forces, both subtle and complex, that compromised her dreams and accomplishments. Lindsey Apple employs nearly seventy years of Susan Clay Sawitzky's personal letters and poetry to reconstruct the world of a woman seeking modernity with "the millstone of tradition" upon her shoulders.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-292) and index.

ISBN:

0873385799

OCLC:

36573593