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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aThe stone wall |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-02-15 | ||
| 508 | _aThanks to Adam Buchbinder, Jens Sadowski, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net | ||
| 520 | _aThe stone wall by Mary Casal is an autobiography written in the early 20th century. It offers an unflinching, taboo-breaking account of a New England woman’s life from childhood into later years, centering on sexuality, secrecy, and the damage done by social silence. Born in 1864 and raised a tomboy, the narrator describes coercion and abuse by men, her disdain for rigid femininity, and a lasting emotional and romantic pull toward women. The opening of this autobiography declares a mission to tell truths long hushed, then traces a spirited New England childhood shaped by boys’ games, a mother’s punitive secrecy, and early, coerced sexual encounters that teach concealment and distrust. She argues for frank sex education while recounting predation by a neighbor, a menarche misunderstood through silence, and later harassment by an elderly lodger. Alongside this, she finds joy in sports and dancing, tenderness and nonsexual intimacy with girls, and a single, overpowering but thwarted encounter with a notorious local charmer. As a teen she endures an assault by a brother-in-law, accepts a chaste engagement she doesn’t truly feel, and heads West for college, where she is socially successful, shares kisses with a president’s daughter, recalls unexpected arousal on horseback, and is again coerced by a revered relative. These opening chapters frame a double life: publicly the cheerful, capable “good girl,” privately a survivor who questions Victorian taboos and searches for a love that fits her nature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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| 653 | _aLesbians -- United States -- Biography | ||
| 653 | _aCasal, Mary, 1864-1935 | ||
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