Mary Ellen Chase | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of Mary Ellen Chase.

Mary Ellen Chase | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of Mary Ellen Chase.
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SOURCE: Whicher, George P. “She Teaches with Enthusiasm.” New York Herald Tribune Books (16 November 1939): 3.

In the following review, Whicher recommends A Goodly Fellowship, regretting only that it is somewhat too rosy in its portrait of the teaching profession.

This book is not a novel, though it reads like one, but a second installment of autobiography. Ten years ago Miss Chase wrote in A Goodly Heritage the story of her childhood in Maine. She now adds the chronicle of her thirty years as a teacher [in A Goodly Fellowship], beginning, after a brief survey of her own education, with her first experience in conducting a district school in her native state, and tracing her gradual rise in the profession through Western boarding schools and advanced study at home and abroad to the secure dignity of a professorship in Smith College. One gathers very quickly that the teaching profession has...

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