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A Woman of Genius

Mary Hunter Austin

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .e such a point of good reading at the seminary that I have always thought it a pity they could not go a little farther and make a practice of it.

The difficulty with most of our reading was that it had no relativity to the processes of life in Ohianna; we had things as far removed from it as Dante and Euripides, things no nearer than "The Scarlet Letter" and "David Copperfield," from which to draw for the exigencies of Taylorville was to cause my mother to wonder, with tears in her eyes, why in the world I couldn't be like other people. I read; I gorged, in fact, on the best books, but I found it more convenient to go on living by the shallow priggishness of Cousin Judd's selection. All that splendid stream poured in upon me and sank and lost itself in the shifty undercurrent that made still, by times, distracting eddies on the surface of adolescence.

But whatever was missed or misunderstood of its evidences, the Gift worked at the bottom, throve like a. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Morality and love, and how to reconcile them in early twentieth century society. The ideas of what is right set by convention rather than higher observances of what is wrong and right, which continues to this day. The struggle of a woman whose own morality is derived from the generations preceding h

3'5

The main theme of the novel, a woman pursuing a career as an actress, is quite interesting and revolutionary for its time. But what I did not enjoy so much is Austin's style, extremely outdated and difficult to follow at times. She makes up for it though with disturbing, powerful images about the

A very early feminist work, 1912.

I enjoyed this book although it's rather dated in several ways.