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Mary McCarthy • 185 Items / 27 Books, 100 Articles, 58 Reviews
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957)
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Published Reviews
  1. Books
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    An Author of Few Pieties and Few Illusions (Review)
    John W. Simons
    Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy
    1. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
    Commonweal, July 12, 1957, p. 379
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    Give a Life to Live (Review)
    Katherine Hoskins
    Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy
    1. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
    The Nation, July 6, 1957, p. 16
  3. Books and Comments
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    The Women and the Orphan Child (Review)
    Victor Lange
    Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy
    1. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
    The New Republic, June 24, 1957, p. 18
  4. Books & Comment
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    The Cold Eye of Mary McCarthy (Review)
    Robert E. Fitch
    Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy
    1. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
    The New Republic, May 5, 1958, p. 17
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    Mary Was an Orphan (Review)
    Phyllis McGinley
    Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy
    1. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
    The Saturday Review, June 8, 1957, p. 31
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    New Novels (5 Reviews)
    Graham Hough
    Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy
    1. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
    2. The Complete Works of Nathanael West by Nathanael West
    3. The Volcanoes Above Us by Norman Lewis
    4. The Divine and the Decay by Bill Hopkins
    5. Voss by Patrick White
    Encounter, February 1958, pp. 84-90
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    Atlantic Bookshelf (6 Reviews)
    Charles J. Rolo
    Reader's Choice
    1. The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years by Arthur Bryant
    2. The Innocent Ambassadors by Philip Wylie
    3. The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
    4. The Decline and Fall of Sex by Robert Elliot Fitch
    5. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
    6. The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
    The Atlantic Monthly, June 1957, pp. 85-91
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    The New Books (13 Reviews)
    Paul Pickrel
    Ladies and Gentlemen...
    1. Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee
    2. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
    3. Mrs. Gladstone by Georgina Battiscombe
    4. The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years by Arthur Bryant
    5. Potter on America by Stephen Potter
    6. The Club by Andrew Graham
    7. The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch
    8. The Nature of Passion by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
    9. The Town by William Faulkner
    10. All Rome Trembled by Melton S. Davis
    11. Tides of Crisis by Adolf A. Berle, Jr.
    12. The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law by Glanville L. Williams
    13. Reflections on Hanging by Arthur Koestler
    The Harpers Monthly, June 1957, pp. 79-87