About the book
Mary Clearman Blew’s education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. This Is Not the Ivy League is her account of what it was to be that girl, and then that woman—pressured by husband and parents to be the conventional wife of the 1950s, persisting in her pursuit of an education, trailed by a reluctant husband and small children through graduate school, and finally entering the job market with a PhD in English only to find a whole new set of pressures and prejudices.
This memoir is Blew’s behind-the-scenes account of pursuing a career at a time when a woman’s place in the world was supposed to have limits. It is a story of both the narrowing perspective of the social norm and the ever-expanding possibilities of a woman who refuses to be told what she can and cannot be.
Editions of This Is Not the Ivy League
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780803230118
- EBook
- ISBN 9781496211569
- EBook
- ISBN 9781496211576
- EBook
- ISBN 9780803237803
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Mary Clearman Blew’s education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. This Is Not the Ivy League is her account of what it was to be that girl, and then that woman—pressured by husband and parents to be the conventional wife of the 1950s, persisting in her pursuit of an education, trailed by a reluctant husband and small children through graduate school, and finally entering the job market with a PhD in English only to find a whole new set of pressures and prejudices.
This memoir is Blew’s behind-the-scenes account of pursuing a career at a time when a woman’s place in the world was supposed to have limits. It is a story of both the narrowing perspective of the social norm and the ever-expanding possibilities of a woman who refuses to be told what she can and cannot be.
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What is This Is Not the Ivy League about?
Mary Clearman Blew’s education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. This Is Not the Ivy League is her account of what it was to be that girl, and then that woman—pressured by husband and parents to be the conventional wife of the 1950s, persisting in her pursuit of an education, trailed by a reluctant husband and small children through graduate school, and finally entering the job market with a PhD in English only to find a whole new set of pressures and prejudices.
This memoir is Blew’s behind-the-scenes account of pursuing a career at a time when a woman’s place in the world was supposed to have limits. It is a story of both the narrowing perspective of the social norm and the ever-expanding possibilities of a woman who refuses to be told what she can and cannot be.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in This Is Not the Ivy League?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Biography and non-fiction prose > Memoirs
Where can I read a sample of This Is Not the Ivy League?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780803230118
Is This Is Not the Ivy League part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series American Lives
Who is/are the Author/s of the book This Is Not the Ivy League?
Mary Clearman Blew
Who is the Publisher of the book This Is Not the Ivy League?
Nebraska
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This Is Not the Ivy League is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780803230118) and ebook(ISBN 9781496211569) and ebook(ISBN 9781496211576) and ebook(ISBN 9780803237803)
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