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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