Readers familiar with Marguerite Noble’s novel Filaree (1979) will find Beasley’s memoir to be a companion piece of sorts, though the latter is wooden by comparison. While she glances over her father after a divorce that put the now splintered family into financial peril, she recounts endless fights with a petulant, depressive mother, of whom she writes, “Sometimes I thought I hated my mother more bitterly than anyone in the world.” Freedom came when she earned a teaching degree and, in time, ended up in educational administration in the Pacific Northwest only to run afoul of her boss. There was no play about it.)” An early student of Freudian psychology, Beasley catalogs instances of sexual abuse while revealing herself to be ahead of her time in attitudes toward sexual relations. Her siblings were, by her account, uninspired and unintelligent-and worse: “I did not like my three oldest brothers (I feared, mistrusted, and hated them at times, chiefly because of their treatment of me which I look upon now as pure rape. Her father was a “restless, violent alcoholic” who moved his 13 children frequently as he pursued one pipe-dream scheme after another.
A memoir from a hitherto unknown educator and reformer, first published in Paris in 1925.īorn in little-settled West Texas in 1892, Beasley had an oppressively unhappy family life.
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