![]() ![]() In a 2006 profile in Vanity Fair, her lackadaisical approach to parenting was detailed: “During those years when George was getting his teaching degree at the University of New Hampshire under the G.I. ![]() ![]() And George did not like my not liking the things I was supposed to like.” After George returned home from the military he had an affair Grace retaliated with an affair of her own. “I did not like being regarded as a freak because I spent time in front of a typewriter instead of a sink. “I did not like belonging to clubs,” she later wrote. More comfortable in denim jeans and shirts, she showed no interest in conforming to the 1950s ideal woman. Grace freely admitted to being a lazy housewife and, to say the least, not a very good mother. After World War II army service, George became a teacher, but Grace wasn’t the perfect faculty wife and displayed rebellious tendencies. Her parents separated when she was ten years old.Īt the age of eighteen she married George Metalious (1925-2015) who came from a Greek family. Of French-Canadian ancestry, she was born Marie Grace De Repentigny in Manchester, New Hampshire. It caused outrage in the 1950s, but went on to become one of the biggest selling books of all time. Grace Metalious (Septem– February 25, 1964) was an American author best remembered for her sensational novel Peyton Place. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |