The Story of Mary Maclane

Nothing, oh nothing on the earth can suffer like a woman young and all alone! There is a lot in this book that appeals to a part in me that likes essentialism, this affect driven part. Mary MacLane's book is something (it is /something/) that is about what it means to be an adolescent teenage girl (w......more

I decided to read this for a curious reason: it figures prominently in the new novel Plain Bad Heroines, that I'm reading next, so I thought it might be wise to read this first. Alas, even though fairly short, it is extremely repetitious and tedious. I really could have read the first 10 pages, and......more

I love this. This is a published diary written in 1901(!) by a 19-year-old, self proclaimed genius, Mary MacLean of Montana. She’s depressed, sexually confused and in love with her only friend (who is also a woman). She claims to be more of a genius than any other literary genius to ever live and sh......more

When I saw this on order in the library catalog, I guessed from the cover that it must be about a female serial killer, and was very surprised when I read the description and reviews here. Despite those serial killer eyes, this is actually a confessional diary from a depressed, goth, bisexual teenag......more