Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
The Yearling (1946)
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The Yearling (1946)

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was one of those women whom it’s not going to be a picnic to be married to, but who did indeed love men, who listened to their rough and ready tales, and who felt more at home among them than among women, especially what you’d call “society women.” So when she and her (first) husband Charles Rawlings moved to the swamplands and…

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