Flannery (52 page)

53
“A thing like this”: Carson McCullers,
Clock Without Hands
(Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1961), 217.

53
“probably has the distinction”: Hines,
Treasure Album,
8.

53
“a town of columns”: Cynthia Parks, “Flannery O’Connor,”
Florida Times-Union and Journal,
September 2, 1984.

53
“Milledgeville Federal”: Robert J. Wilson III, “A Brief Sketch of Milledgeville,” unpublished essay, private collection.

53
“idealistic”: Ted R. Spivey,
Flannery O’Connor: The Woman, the Thinker, the Visionary
(Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1955), 77.

53
“If war comes”: “Milledgeville: 150th Birthday,”
Union-Recorder,
April 1953.

54
“in public the rights”: E. A. Houston, “Tribute to Mr. Peter J. Cline,”
Union-Recorder,
March 7, 1916

54
“trouped through”: FOC, working draft, GCSU.

54
“an austere nun”: Betty Boyd Love, “Recollections of Flannery O’Connor,”
Flannery O’Connor Bulletin
14 (1985): 65.

54
“Sister was the first”: Regina O’Connor marginal writing, Betty Boyd Love, “Recollection of Flannery O’Connor” manuscript, GCSU.

55
“Sister would always”: Dr. Peter Cline, in discussion with the author, June 11, 2006.

55
“a strong resemblance”: Love, “Recollections,” 65.

56
“Infants, girls”: Josephine Hendin,
The World of Flannery O’Connor
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1972), 6.

56
“We’d have these big”: Jack Tarleton, in discussion with the author, June 10, 2006.

56
“a speaking likeness”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Sally Fitzgerald.

56
“alcoholic”: Dr. Peter Cline, in discussion with the author, June 11, 2006.

57
“Mary Flannery needs to work”: “Report of Mary Flannery O’Connor. Peabody Elementary School. 1937–1938,” GCSU.

58
“Her mother handpicked”: Jack Tarleton, in discussion with the author, June 10, 2006.

58
“gold-rimmed”: unidentified fragment, GCSU.

58
“I remember sitting”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Frances Florencourt.

58
“Oh, I’ve found Amelia Earhart”: Jean Cash,
Flannery O’Connor: A Life
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002), 45.

58
“She would bring”: Regina Sullivan, “Armstrong State College Panel on O’Connor,” Armstrong College, Savannah, Ga., May 1989.

59
“I could sew”: FOC, “The King of the Birds,”
CW,
832.

59
“They played better”: Charlotte Conn Ferris, in discussion with the author, November 4, 2003.

59
“I was always interested”: Elizabeth Shreve Ryan, in discussion with the author, February 10, 2004.

59
“I think the times”: Cash,
Flannery O’Connor,
47–48.

59
“We had a running”: Dr. Peter Cline, in discussion with the author, June 11, 2006.

60
“the invisible man”: Robert J. Wilson III, in discussion with the author, January 5, 2004.

60
“I remember sitting”: Frances Florencourt, in discussion with the author, December 10, 2004.

60
“To this day”: Jack Tarleton, in discussion with the author, June 10, 2006.

60
“wild horses”: Cash,
Flannery O’Connor,
48.

61
“Mary Flannery spent”: Ibid.

61
“obligatory”: Ibid.

61
“garden suburb”: The description of Peachtree Heights is taken mostly from Bill Bell,
A History of Peachtree Heights East to 1950
(Atlanta: Gateway Publishing, 2000).

62
“Miss Mary”: FOC to Cudden Ward Dorrance, April 9, 1964, UNC.

62
“My mother and I”: Jack Tarleton, in discussion with the author, June 10, 2006.

63
“Mary Flannery and I”: Dr. Peter Cline, in discussion with the author, June 11, 2006.

63
“She once described”: Caroline Gordon, “Heresy in Dixie,”
Sewanee Review
76, no. 2 (Spring 1968): 263.

64
“Our uncle Bernard”: Dr. Peter Cline, in discussion with the author, June 11, 2006.

64
“He’s never mentioned”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 17, 1964,
HB,
578.

64
“Being an ex–Bell House”: “Cupid Raids the Bell House,”
Atlanta Journal Magazine
(February 3, 1929): 3.

64
“Bell House was musty”: Jack Tarleton, in discussion with the author, June 10, 2006.

65
“Dr. Cline Hosts”: undated clipping from
Atlanta Journal,
private collection.

65
“My idea about Atlanta”: FOC to Dr. T. R. Spivey, March 12, 1964,
CW,
1203.

65
“Regina and my mother”: Dr. Peter Cline, in discussion with the author, June 11, 2006.

66
“I come from”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 28, 1956,
CW,
997–98.

66
“a cross between”: Preston Russell and Barbara Hines,
Savannah: A History of Her People since 1733
(Savannah: Frederic C. Beil, 1992), 158.

66
“destitute”: Susan Kessler Barnard,
Buckhead: A Place for All Time
(Athens, Ga.: Hill Street Press, 1996), 145.

66
“absurdist vision”: Spivey,
Flannery O’Connor,
114.

66
“We met her”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, November 8, 1960,
CW,
1135.

68
“I sure am sick”: FOC to Louise Abbot, January 13, 1961,
HB,
426.

69
“which Flannery sputtered”: De Vene Harrold, unpublished manuscript, GCSU.

69
“coming slow”: FOC, untitled fragment, GCSU.

70
“following a two-week”:
Atlanta Journal,
February 3, 1941.

70
“In recent months”:
Union-Recorder,
February 6, 1941.

71
“I went to the funeral”: Elizabeth Shreve Ryan, in discussion with the author, February 10, 2004.

71
“I think she did have”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Louise Abbot.

71
“I’ve never spent much time”: FOC to Betty Hester, February 11, 1956,
HB,
136.

72
“The reality of death”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Rooms with a View,”
Flannery O’Connor Bulletin
10 (1981): 17.

72
“I don’t know how”: Kelly Suzanne Gerald, “Flannery O’Connor: Toward a Visual Hermeneutics” (PhD dissertation, Auburn University, 2001), 11.

72
One Result:
MFOC, cartoon,
Peabody Palladium,
October 28, 1940.

73
“single-frame satires”: Gerald, “Visual Hermeneutics,” 11.

73
“a female Ogden Nash”: Nelle Womack Hines, “Flannery O’Connor Shows Talent as Cartoonist,”
Union-Recorder,
June 17, 1943.

73
“His mind began to wander”: FOC, “The First Book,” GCSU.

73
“Fish oil”: FOC, “Recollections on My Future Childhood,” GCSU.

74
“the illustrations about a young”: FOC to Brainard and Frances Neel Cheney, March 13, 1957,
CC,
53.

74
“the rest of what I read”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 28, 1955,
HB,
98.

75
“We didn’t have a lot”: Elizabeth Hardwick, in discussion with the author, May 24, 2004.

75
“never opened it”: FOC, “Recollections,” GCSU.

75
“She wrote these books”: Deedie Sibley, in discussion with the author, May 24, 2004.

75
“M.F. has finished”: Gertrude Treanor to Agnes Florencourt, March 16, 1941, private collection.

76
“Herman’s HENRIETTA”: FOC, “Mistaken Identity,” GCSU.

76
“Peabodite Reveals Strange Hobby”:
Peabody Palladium
5, no. 3 (December 16, 1941): 2.

76
“The Good”: Alice Alexander, “The Memory of Milledgeville’s Flannery O’Connor Is Still Green,”
Atlanta Journal,
March 28, 1979.

76
“We were always told”: Elizabeth Shreve Ryan, in discussion with the author, February 10, 2004.

76
“The teacher did run”: Cash,
Flannery O’Connor,
37.

76
“I went to a progressive”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 28, 1955,
CW,
950.

77
“Mr. English”: FOC, fragment of an early version of
Wise Blood,
GCSU.

77
“hello”: Georgia A. Newman, “A ‘Contrary Kinship’: The Correspondence of Flannery O’Connor and Maryat Lee — Early Years, 1957–1959” (PhD dissertation, University of South Florida), 7.

77
“I can see her plodding”: Charlotte Conn Ferris, in discussion with the author, November 4, 2003.

77
“I am the only one”: “Peabodite,”
Peabody Palladium
(December 16, 1941): 2.

77
“the way the halls”: Gerald E. Sherry, “An Interview with Flannery O’Connor,”
Critic
21 (June–July 1963): 29–31.

77
“Now next Wednesday”: Barbara Beiswanger, “Flannery O’Connor,” unpublished memoir, GCSU.

78
“The topical is poison”: FOC to Betty Hester, September 1, 1963,
HB,
537.

78
“Here, Adolph!” “Peabodite,”
Peabody Palladium
(December 16, 1941): 2.

78
“From 15 to 18”: FOC to Dr. T. R. Spivey, August 19, 1959,
CW,
1103.

78
“Senior, Senior”: MFOC, cartoon,
Peabody Palladium
(March 2, 1941): 2.

78
“In Hopes That a Jimmie”: MFOC, cartoon,
Peabody Palladium
(December 14, 1941): 2.

79
“She just thought”: Elizabeth Shreve Ryan, in discussion with the author, February 10, 2004.

79
“How she looked”: William Ivey Hair, with James C. Bonner, Edward B. Dawson, and Robert J. Wilson III,
A Centennial History of Georgia College
(Milledgeville: Georgia College, 1979), 211.

79
“Being in a creative”: Elizabeth Shreve Ryan, in discussion with the author, February 10, 2004.

80
“My dad-gum foot’s”: Cash,
Flannery O’Connor,
47.

80
“integrate English”: FOC, “The Teaching of Literature,”
MM,
127.

80
“At that time they said”: Dr. Floride Gardner, in discussion with the author, June 16, 2006.

80
“terribly disappointed”: Cash,
Flannery O’Connor,
36.

80
“At Long Last”: MFOC, cartoon,
Peabody Palladium
(May 23, 1941): 2.

80
“When our schooldays”: Alexander, “Memory,”
Atlanta Journal,
March 28, 1979.

81
“our mothers”: Mary Virginia Harrison, “Mary Virginia Harrison Collection,” GCSU.

81
party at the Cline Mansion: The description of the graduation party is taken mostly from the
Union-Recorder,
May 28, 1942.

81
“I recollect Mrs. O’Connor”: Elizabeth Shreve Ryan, in discussion with the author, February 10, 2004.

CHAPTER THREE: “MFOC”

82
“Lucy Gains College”: FOC, Folder 199-e, GCSU.

82
“the most progressive”: FOC, Folder 15b, GCSU.

82
“I enjoyed college”: FOC to Janet McKane, July 9, 1963,
HB,
530.

83
“I first met Flannery”: Betty Boyd Love, draft of “Recollections of Flannery O’Connor,” GCSU.

83
“twining over”: Betty Boyd, “Reflection,”
Corinthian
(Fall 1942): 12.

83
“Some new, unheard-of”: M. F. O’Connor, “Pffft,”
Corinthian
(Fall 1944): 16.

83
“pretty terrible poems”: Love, “Recollections” draft, GCSU.

84
“have not written anything”: FOC to Betty Boyd, November 5, 1949,
HB,
19.

84
“horribly serious”: Love, “Recollections” draft, GCSU.

84
“Betty Boyd was”: Jane Sparks Willingham, in discussion with the author, November 29, 2004.

84
“the two people”: Betty Boyd, “My First Impression of GSCW,”
Corinthian
(Fall 1942): 8.

84
“a great many hours”: Love, “Recollections” draft, GSCU.

84
“I soon became”: Betty Boyd Love, “Recollections of Flannery O’Connor,”
Flannery O’Connor Bulletin
14 (1985): 65.

85
“Miss Mary was a businessman”: Jean Cash,
Flannery O’Connor: A Life
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002) 28.

85
“Miss Mary . . . inherited”: Helen I. Greene, “Mary Flannery O’Connor: One Teacher’s Happy Memory,”
Flannery O’Connor Bulletin
19 (1990): 45.

85
“She and Dr. Boeson”: Lou Ann Hardigne, in discussion with the author, November 1, 2004.

86
“When I sit down”: FOC, “The Grotesque in Southern Fiction,” GCSU, 9.