Flannery_ A Life of Flannery O'Connor - Brad Gooch [183]
26 “’umbled”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Margaret Florencourt Mann. These interviews were conducted and transcribed by O’Hare for a Flannery O’Connor documentary that has yet to be released.
26 “beautifully cared for”: Barbara McKenzie, Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980), xvi.
27 “Roll of the Female Orphanage Society”: Brown, “Savannah Years,” 24.
27 “King of Siam”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Flannery O’Connor: Patterns of Friendship, Patterns of Love,” Georgia Review 52, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 409.
27 “Hold your head up”: Kathleen Feeley, S.S.N.D, “‘Mine Is a Comic Art . . .’ Flannery O’Connor,” Realist of Distances: Flannery O’Connor Revisited, edited by Karl-Heinz Westarp and Jan Nordby Gretlund (Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1987; New Brunswick, N.J.: 1972), 67.
27 “Ed would not have put”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Invisible Father,” 10.
28 “R.C.O’C.”: Ibid., 9.
28 “All the mothers walked the little girls to school”: Brown, “Savannah Years,” 20.
29 “every day”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Invisible Father,” 16.
29 “novena-rosary tradition”: FOC to John Lynch, February 19, 1956, HB, 139.
29 “big girls”: Brown, “Savannah Years,” 9–13.
30 “I delivered”: Dan O’Leary, in discussion with the author, September 15, 2004.
30 “a pidgeon-toed”: FOC, “Biography,” GCSU.
31 “Tarso-Supernator-Proper Built”: FOC, untitled story, GCSU.
31 “some sort of corrective”: Patricia Persse, in discussion with the author, Septem-ber 15, 2004.
31 “If I took off”: “We Remember Mary Flannery” panel, November 2, 1990.
32 “I suppose my father”: FOC to Betty Hester, July 28, 1956, HB, 167–68.
32 a pencil and blue crayon: Kelly Suzanne Gerald, “Flannery O’Connor: Toward a Visual Hermeneutics” (PhD dissertation, Auburn University, 2001), 7–8.
33 “She’d stand there”: Brown, “Savannah Years,” 16.
34 “When we were”: “We Remember Mary Flannery” panel, February 11, 1990.
34 “backyard quail farm”: “Quail Farm on Peachtree,” Atlanta Constitution, Sunday edition, June 4, 1939.
34 “Nothing remarkable”: Brown, “Savannah Years,” 15.
34 “full of wire”: Unidentified fragment, GCSU.
34 “pulled the rubber bands”: Lillian Dowling Odom, “Flannery O’Connor Childhood Friend: Lost and Found,” unpublished manuscript, 3, private collection.
35 “a very innocent speller”: FOC to Ben Griffith, March 3, 1954, CW, 923.
35 “Mother, I made”: Odom, “Childhood Friend,” 19.
35 “smash an atom”: FOC, Wise Blood, working draft, GCSU.
36 “A lot of them”: FOC to Dr. T. R. Spivey, August 19, 1959, CW, 1104.
36 “taught by the sisters”: FOC to Father James H. McCown, January 12, 1958, CW, 1061.
36 “hot house innocence”: Brown, “Savannah Years,” 11.
36 “a long standing avoider”: FOC to Elizabeth Bishop, June 1, 1958, CW, 1073.
36 “From 8 to 12”: FOC to Betty Hester, January 17, 1956, CW, 983.
36 “as natural to me”: FOC to William Sessions, July 8, 1956, HB, 164.
37 “a very peculiar child”: Patricia Persse, “We Remember Mary Flannery” panel, February 3, 1990.
37 turned a child away: Sister Jude Walsh, “Armstrong State College Panel on O’Connor,” Savannah, Ga., May 1989: “Marguerite [Pinckney Knowland] told me that one day one of her playmates came with her and she came to the house with Marguerite but she was dispatched home by Mrs. O’Connor and made clear to Marguerite that she did not want her to bring any other children with her when she came to play.”
37 “Let’s Pretend”: Information on the program was taken from: Arthur Anderson, Let’s Pretend and the Golden Age of Radio (Boatsburg, Pa.: BearManor Media, 2004).
38 “How do we get”: Cynthia Zarin, “Not Nice,” The New Yorker (April 17, 2006): 38.
38 “Mrs. O’Connor was”: Newell Turner Parr, “We Remember Mary Flannery” panel, February 10, 1990.
39 “She had pages and pages”: Ibid.
39 “But then Marguerite”: Sister Jude Walsh, in discussion with the author, June 5, 2006.
39 “No one was spared”: Thea Jarvis, “Flannery — Georgia’s Own,” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, May 8, 1980. According to Kathleen Feeley, the short satiric descriptions of uncles and cousins were typed;