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The Education of Mary Flannery O’Connor
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In 1943, Flannery O’Connor travelled to Massachusetts to spend time with her aunt, Agnes Florencourt, and her cousins. Family friend Lydia A. Bancroft, on her way up north herself, offered to not only accompany the eighteen-year-old O’Connor on the trip, but to have her stay a while (in the New Jersey home of her sister Grace Stone) and show her New York City. This chapter describes O’Connor’s time in New York as experienced with Bancroft, Bancroft’s niece Helen Stone, and artist Margaret Sutton, all of whom see to it that O’Connor gets to not only experience New York but, more importantly, witness first-hand how other Americans (that is, non-Southerners) view race and live life sans Segregation.
Title: The Education of Mary Flannery O’Connor
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In 1943, Flannery O’Connor travelled to Massachusetts to spend time with her aunt, Agnes Florencourt, and her cousins.
Family friend Lydia A.
Bancroft, on her way up north herself, offered to not only accompany the eighteen-year-old O’Connor on the trip, but to have her stay a while (in the New Jersey home of her sister Grace Stone) and show her New York City.
This chapter describes O’Connor’s time in New York as experienced with Bancroft, Bancroft’s niece Helen Stone, and artist Margaret Sutton, all of whom see to it that O’Connor gets to not only experience New York but, more importantly, witness first-hand how other Americans (that is, non-Southerners) view race and live life sans Segregation.
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