and was committed to a psychiatric center on Long Island. A few months later, she returned to the U.S. While living in London, she had been thrown out of her lodgings-for reasons that remain unclear-arrested and placed in a mental ward. Her fate remained a mystery until researchers began digging into her story.
In 1927, Beasley-a self-proclaimed socialist and staunch feminist who fought for women's rights-disappeared. Her book was essentially banned, her voice silenced. Only five-hundred copies were printed, very few of which made it into readers' hands, having been confiscated by customs inspectors or removed from bookshelves by Texas law enforcement. g from the womb only to be tormented in a family whose members I despised or pitied, and brought into association with people whom I should never have chosen." This is the searing opening to Edna "Gertrude" Beasley's raw and scathing memoir, originally published in Paris in 1925 but ultimately suppressed and lost to history-until now. "Thirty years ago, I 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 burstin. My First Thirty Years: A Memoir (Trade Paperback / Paperback)īy Beasley, Gertrude Edited by Bennett, Marie Foreword by Bennett, NinaĪ raw coming-of-age historical memoir that was effectively suppressed and lost to history-until now.
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