Looking for Betty MacDonald the egg, the plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I

"Betty Bard MacDonald (1907-1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children's books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Becker, Paula (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press 2016.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37349107*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Note to readers
  • Prologue: the house and I
  • The richest hill on Earth
  • A twist of fate
  • Child bride
  • Especially Betty
  • Egged on
  • Smelling like sugar cookies
  • Betty in Hollywoodland
  • Authing
  • The name's Kettle
  • Family matters
  • Anybody can
  • Goodbye to all that
  • Epilogue: looking for Betty Macdonald
  • The Bard/MacDonald family
  • Betty's houses: place as witness
  • Bardisms.