This is not the Ivy League [electronic resource] : a memoir / Mary Clearman Blew.
By: Blew, Mary Clearman.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc
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Series: American lives. Publisher: Lincoln [Neb.] : University of Nebraska Press, c2011Description: vii, 214 p.Subject(s): Blew, Mary Clearman, 1939- -- Family | Montana -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 813/.54 | B Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Summary: 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.
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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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.