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Interviewer: Talia Vick Interviewee: Mary-Jane Engh Born: In Mcleansboro, Illinois 1933 Date: April 5, 2005 Minutes: 0-3 3-7 7-12 12-20 20-30 30-38 38-43 43-50 50-58 Growing up in southern Illinois on a farm Lived with both parents and one older brother Father owned chicken hatchery No running water/Pale of water with dipper in front of door for drinking water. Father built new house with moderation Carotene lamps Went to school in town/boring 1 0 cousins lived nearby Snuck over to cousins school Played softball at recess Wrote poems Wanted to write Went to University of Chicago Undergraduate Received BAIMA Reasons for education Marriage Divorce Children Publishing of books Moved to Palouse Librarian career at WSU More books Published Grandson Current status
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Title | Engh, Mary Jane Oral History Interview, 2005 |
Interviewer | Vick, Talia |
Date | 2005-04-30 |
Description | 23 minute oral history with Mary Engh, conducted for a Women in the West (HIST 398 course at Washington State University). She talks about her early childhood growing up on a chicken farm. She completed her bachelors degree at the University of Chicago, and her masters degree at the University of Illinois. She married and divorced twice, while raising two sons. She worked as librarian at Oklahoma State University and published her first novel in 1976. She moved to Pullman, Washington to work as a librarian, but received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and was able to write full time. She continues to write and live in Pullman, Washington. |
Subject | Education; Authors; Divorced women; Working mothers |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Illinois--Hamilton County--McLeansboro; North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Pullman |
Type | Sound |
Genre | Interviews |
Publisher | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Rights Notes | In copyright. Item is in copyright until 95 years after 2011 publication date. |
Identifier | ua262b08f84 |
Source | Is found in Archives 262, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua262.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Holding Institution | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries |
Contributors | Digitization and description funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities We the People grant for Washington Womens History to the Washington Womens History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society. |
Language | English |
Digitization | Original audio cassettes were converted to wav files using Audacity and a USBPre interface. Mp3 files were then created from the wav files for online access. Film clips were created as mpeg-4 files using Adobe Premiere Elements 9 to add selected images to the wav audio files. Print documents were scanned to pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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Title | ua262b08f84_Abstract |
Full Text | Interviewer: Talia Vick Interviewee: Mary-Jane Engh Born: In Mcleansboro, Illinois 1933 Date: April 5, 2005 Minutes: 0-3 3-7 7-12 12-20 20-30 30-38 38-43 43-50 50-58 Growing up in southern Illinois on a farm Lived with both parents and one older brother Father owned chicken hatchery No running water/Pale of water with dipper in front of door for drinking water. Father built new house with moderation Carotene lamps Went to school in town/boring 1 0 cousins lived nearby Snuck over to cousins school Played softball at recess Wrote poems Wanted to write Went to University of Chicago Undergraduate Received BAIMA Reasons for education Marriage Divorce Children Publishing of books Moved to Palouse Librarian career at WSU More books Published Grandson Current status |
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