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Women on the BreadlinesMeridel Le SueurIn these short journalistic pieces, Meridel Le Sueur recorded the struggle of poor women during the Depression in Minnesota. She acted not as a detached observer, but a co-participant in the women’s misery and a fighter for their survival. This small pamphlet sold over 10,000 copies in its first decade of publication in the 1970s.
“In some future, more humane society, there must a monument, a park like at Lidice and Guernica, or for those exterminated in concentration camps, a monument here to their suffering, their anonymous deaths to which we can take our children sunny afternoons to be sure that we never forget them.” —from Women on the Breadlines 5½ x 8½ inches • 24 pages • ISBN 0-931122-34-1 • $3.00 |
Meridel Le SueurMeridel Le Sueur was born to socialist parents in 1900 and lived to be 96, spending most of her life in the middle west. She has been recognized as one of the leading proletarian short story writers of the 1930s, and her work includes short stories, novels, children’s books, poetry, and nonfiction. Blacklisted during the McCarthy Period, Le Sueur’s contribution to American literature faded for nearly 30 years, gaining renewed prominence in the mid-1970s.  |