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Show Notes 317 things; and a constant effort to hold high the torch in the dusky spaces of man's conscience." Bloom The Western Canon, 324. 10. Ibid., 330-31. 11. Madelyn to Elizabeth, April 8, 1952, BQSC. 12. See Bloom, The Western Canon, 433; Diary, 1927. April 2, May 1, 13. Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 106. 14. Letter to Mother, January 29, 1960, BQSC. 15. Diary, May 20, 1960. 16. Diary, October 31, 1960. 17. Diary, May 21, 1961. 18. Diary, June 1, 1961. 19. Diary June 1, 1961. 20. Diary, June 1, 1961. 21. Original in the Barnard and Cherry Silver Collection. 22. Copyright expired, but published, among other places, in The New Modern American & British Poetry, Louis ed. Untermeyer, York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940), 381. (New 23. Diary, March 1, 1961. 24. Notebook, undated, but apparently written on March 1, 1961. One is tempted to compare Madelyn's outburst with Woolf's Virginia initiation of work on The Years and Three Guineas when she was fifty. Their 1937 publication required much courage and affronted her male counterparts by angrily expressing society's denigration of women. See Carolyn Heilbrun, Writing A Woman's Life (New York: Ballantine, 1988), 15, 124-26. 25. Diary, September 16, 1960. 26. Diary, 1960, undated. 27. Ibid. 28. Letter to Family, April 10, 1961, BQSC. 29. A good friend at the University of Utah in the 1920s had been Maurine Bennion, an older sister of Lowell. Madelyn had met Lowell and very much admired his manuals and books of Mormonism. See Mary Bradford, Lowell L. Bennion:Teacher, Counselor, Humanitarian (Salt Lake City: Dialogue Foundation, 1995). 30. Because Madelyn died so soon after their "deep and far-reach ing philosophical conversation," Brian felt guilty that perhaps his choice of Camus's The Stranger and his struggle in defining his own values might have been a factor in her death. He needn't have been concerned. The autopsy showed her heart was double the normal size |
