Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
Christine McCulloch, Emory University
Essay Sections:
Introduction | O'Connor's Southern Identity | Writing Rural Georgia | Company at Andalusia | The Issue of Race | Notes | Recommended Resources
All images of letters displayed are Copyright 1959, 1960, 1963 by Flannery O'Connor; Copyright renewed 1987, 1988, 1991 by Regina Cline O'Connor. Permission granted by The Mary Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust. All rights reserved. Letters available through Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Notes:
1. Flannery O'Connor, Letters to Betty Hester: 1955-1964. Manuscript Collection No. 1064. Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.
2. Many of the letters in Emory's collection have been published, in whole or in part, in The Habit of Being, Ed. Sally Fitzgerald, 1979. Betty Hester, a native of Atlanta who worked as a secretary and office clerk when she was not reading, writing her own fiction, and maintaining close correspondences with O'Connor and Iris Murdoch, is referred to in Fitzgerald's collection as "A." Habit of Being, xiii.
3. Habit of Being, xiii.
4. Shinn, Thelma J. "Flannery O'Connor and the Violence of Grace." Contemporary Literature. 9.1 (Winter 1968): 64. Shinn is here quoting Jane Hart's "Strange Earth: The Stories of Flannery O'Connor." Georgia Review XII (Summer 1958): 216.
5. Katz, Claire. "O'Connor's Rage of Vision." American Literature 46.1 (March 1974): 56.
6. Shinn, 58.
7. Katz, 57.
8. Ibid., 57.
9. The Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation, Inc. 2002. The J. Whitney Bunting School of Business, GC&SU, Milledgeville, GA. 28 July 2008. http://www.andalusiafarm.org/.
10. Immediately following a letter dated 6 Aug. 1960.
11. O'Connor, Flannery "The Enduring Chill." The Complete Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1971: 362.
12. Ibid., 363-364.
13. Ibid., 406, 411.
14. McCarthy, John F. "Human Intelligence versus Divine Truth: The Intellectual in Flannery O'Connor's Works." The English Journal 55.9 (Dec. 1966): 1144.
15. Habit of Being, xii.
16. Edmunds, Susan. "Through a Glass Darkly: Visions of Integrated Community in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood." Contemporary Literature 37.4 (Winter 1996): 560.
17. Ibid., 559-560.
18. Gentry, Marshall Bruce. "Reviewed work: Flannery O'Connor: A Life by Jean W. Cash." The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 36.1 (Spring 2003): 152.
2. Many of the letters in Emory's collection have been published, in whole or in part, in The Habit of Being, Ed. Sally Fitzgerald, 1979. Betty Hester, a native of Atlanta who worked as a secretary and office clerk when she was not reading, writing her own fiction, and maintaining close correspondences with O'Connor and Iris Murdoch, is referred to in Fitzgerald's collection as "A." Habit of Being, xiii.
3. Habit of Being, xiii.
4. Shinn, Thelma J. "Flannery O'Connor and the Violence of Grace." Contemporary Literature. 9.1 (Winter 1968): 64. Shinn is here quoting Jane Hart's "Strange Earth: The Stories of Flannery O'Connor." Georgia Review XII (Summer 1958): 216.
5. Katz, Claire. "O'Connor's Rage of Vision." American Literature 46.1 (March 1974): 56.
6. Shinn, 58.
7. Katz, 57.
8. Ibid., 57.
9. The Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation, Inc. 2002. The J. Whitney Bunting School of Business, GC&SU, Milledgeville, GA. 28 July 2008. http://www.andalusiafarm.org/.
10. Immediately following a letter dated 6 Aug. 1960.
11. O'Connor, Flannery "The Enduring Chill." The Complete Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1971: 362.
12. Ibid., 363-364.
13. Ibid., 406, 411.
14. McCarthy, John F. "Human Intelligence versus Divine Truth: The Intellectual in Flannery O'Connor's Works." The English Journal 55.9 (Dec. 1966): 1144.
15. Habit of Being, xii.
16. Edmunds, Susan. "Through a Glass Darkly: Visions of Integrated Community in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood." Contemporary Literature 37.4 (Winter 1996): 560.
17. Ibid., 559-560.
18. Gentry, Marshall Bruce. "Reviewed work: Flannery O'Connor: A Life by Jean W. Cash." The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 36.1 (Spring 2003): 152.
Essay Sections:
Introduction | O'Connor's Southern Identity | Writing Rural Georgia | Company at Andalusia | The Issue of Race | Notes | Recommended Resources
