{"id":2033,"date":"2009-09-26T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T21:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/09\/incest-bestiality-and-physical-violence-is-still-shocking-readers-more-than-80-years-after-it-was-banned-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2009-09-26T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T22:41:33","slug":"incest-bestiality-and-physical-violence-is-still-shocking-readers-more-than-80-years-after-it-was-banned-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/26\/incest-bestiality-and-physical-violence-is-still-shocking-readers-more-than-80-years-after-it-was-banned-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"“Incest, bestiality and physical violence is still shocking readers more than 80 years after it was banned in the United States”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Subject line from the Abilene Reporter News<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0Story from TEXAS READS<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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TEXAS READS: SOMETHING OF A SOLUTION TO TEXAS TO LITERARY MYSTERY<\/h2>\n

By Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>\u00a0The Texas literary mystery \u201cWhatever Happened to Gertrude Beasley?\u201d has been solved. Sort of.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Edna Gertrude Beasley \u2014 who graduated from Simmons College in Abilene in 1914, taught school in West Texas and Chicago, and traveled the world as a journalist \u2014 wrote a provocative autobiography published in Paris in 1925, \u201cMy First Thirty Years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The graphic language and content of the book resulted in it being banned in England despite a positive review by one of America\u2019s best-known critics, H. L. Mencken, who called it \u201cthe first genuinely realistic picture of the Southern poor white trash.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThirty years ago,\u201d the book began, \u201cI 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 \u201d<\/p>\n

She went on to tell how one of her first memories was her 16-year-old brother pressing down on top of her trying to rape her when she was 4, among other gruesome, explicit and lurid details.<\/p>\n

In early 1928, at age 35, Gertrude Beasley vanished, as far as anyone knew. No one had been able to trace her whereabouts since.<\/p>\n

Many have tried, including novelist Larry McMurtry, Texas literature authority Don Graham and author Bert Almon, all of whom have written about Beasley over the years. Actress Veronica Russell performed a 90-minute one-woman off-Broadway show in New York four years ago based on Beasley\u2019s book.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue at TEXAS READS<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Subject line from the Abilene Reporter News,\u00a0\u00a0Story from TEXAS READS TEXAS READS: SOMETHING OF A SOLUTION TO TEXAS TO LITERARY MYSTERY By Glenn Dromgoole \u00a0The Texas literary mystery \u201cWhatever Happened to Gertrude Beasley?\u201d has been solved. Sort of. Edna Gertrude Beasley \u2014 who graduated from Simmons College in Abilene in 1914, taught school in West […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}