Dickson, Katherine Murphy – 22
Subjects:
American woman’s life; high school; college; graduate school; profession of librarianship; love relationships; marriage; motherhood; family life
Writing Description:
The writing, by a third generation Boston Irish Catholic, describes what it means to be a woman in the second half of the 20th century. It covers her joys and sadness in her journey toward increasing emotional and psychological wholeness. The writing evolves from short daily entries to longer, more reflective ones on what the author is thinking, her perceptions, what she wants to do in life, and what she experiences as she establishes her career, goes to graduate school, marries, has three children, and creates a family life.
Writing Type:
JDN
Gender:
Female
Birth Year:
1932
Death Year:
Occupation and Interests:
Reference librarian. Interests include diaries, poetry, literature, reading, women’s lives, women’s writing, and women’s history. Some of Dickson’s diaries from March 1968–March 1972 have been self-published as Conscious Motherhood, Diary for a Daughter, and Insane Euphoria Speaks. Selections from her diaries from 1973 and 1974 were published in the anthology In Pieces edited by Olivia Dresher.
Age(s):
16-70+
Author Location(s):
Boston, MA; New York, NY; England; Upper Marlboro, MD; Greensboro, MD
Writing Location(s):
Dates:
1948 to date
Handwritten:
Yes
Typed:
Digital:
Self-published:
Number of Pages, etc.:
80 spiral bound notebooks, handwritten on lined pages. Each notebook contains approximately 100 pages, 8-1/2″ x 11″.
Contact Person:
Katherine Dickson
Contact Person/Author Relationship:
Same
Address:
Contact LWC
Phone:
Email:
Date Entered:
07/2004
Date Revised/Confirmed:
02/2007
Entry Filed under: d,Female,Journals, Diaries, and Notebooks