![]() Her mother and sisters braved male objectification and the indignities of poverty, with little if any control over their futures. Beasley penned one of the most brutally honest coming-of-age historical memoirs ever written, one which strips away romantic notions about frontier womens lives at the turn of the 20th century. Though British Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell called My First Thirty Years truthful, which is illegal and Larry McMurtry pronounced it the finest Texas book of its era, Beasleys words have been all but inaccessible for almost a century-until now. ![]() Shortly after its 1925 publication, Gertrude Beasleys ferociously eloquent feminist memoir was banned and she herself disappeared under mysterious circumstances. ![]() Book Synopsis Thirty years ago, I lay in the womb of a woman, conceived in a sexual act of rape, being carried during the prenatal period by an unwilling and rebellious mother, finally bursting from the womb only to be tormented in a family whose members I despised or pitied, and brought into association with people whom I should never have chosen. ![]()
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