The Mary MacLane Project

The definitive website on the life and work of the pioneering feminist writer, film-maker, and media personality Mary MacLane (1881-1929)

Books by Mary MacLane in Print

I Await the Devil's Coming AKA The Story of Mary MacLane (1902) - included in Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader and Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler
In English: Petrarca Press (unexpurgated text, with intro and notes) ● Melville House (publ. text with intro by Jessa Crispin) ● publ. text at Google BooksCharles H. Kerr (publ. text with additional material by Harriet Monroe and Clarence Darrow, intro by Penelope Rosemont).
In French: publ. text at Editions du sous sol (trans. Hélène Frappat)
In Spanish: publ. text at Seix Barral (trans. with intro. by Luna Miguel)
In Danish: publ. text Fortlaget Basilisk (trans. by Harald Voetmann)
Audio (English): publ. text at Librivox ● Librivox recording on YouTube

My Friend Annabel Lee (1903) - publ. text included in Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader and Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler
In English: Petrarca Press (unexpurgated text, with intro and notes - in preparation) ● HardPress Publishing (publ. text) ● Google Books
Audio (English): publ. text at Librivox ● Librivox recording on YouTube (in process)

I, Mary MacLane (1917) - publ. text included in Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader.
In English: Petrarca PressMelville House (publ. text)
Audio (English): Librivox ● Librivox recording on YouTube

Books in Preparation

- Mary in the Press: Miss MacLane and Her Fame - 1000+-page collection of reactions to MacLane from 1902 to the present
A Quite Unusual Intensity of Life: The Lives, Worlds, and Works of Mary MacLane - Michael R. Brown's comprehensive study of MacLane
- Mary MacLane: Uncollected Articles, Letters, and Interviews
- Petrarca Press edition of My Friend Annabel Lee, unexpurgated and annotated

Recent Books by Others

- 2017: Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture; author: Faxneld, Per. A groundbreaking examination of the role of Satan in the emancipation of women; significant section devoted to MacLane.
- 2015: Mocking Mary: The Humorists Vs. Miss MacLane; ed: Brown, Michael R.; collection of three book-length parodies of MacLane's first book: The Story of Lizzie McGuire, The Story of Willie Complain, and The Devil's Letters to Mary MacLane (in which a female author assumes the Satanic guise to parody, criticize, and flirt with MacLane), with a selection of the humorous press jabs at the Montana writer throughout her career
- 2013: Playing House in the American West: Western Women’s Life Narratives, 1839-1987; author: Halverson, Cathryn. A study arguing that female American Western autobiographies make distinctive use of unconventional domesticities.
- 2011: Wanton West: Madams, Money, Murder, and the Wild Women of Montana's Frontier; author: Morgan, Lael. MacLane occupies a significant place in the book for her transgressive personae/behaviors.
- 2006: Before They Could Vote: American Women's Autobiographical Writing, 1819-–1919; editors: Smith, Sidonie A. & Watson, Julia.
- 2004: Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1900-1936; author: Halverson, Cathryn. A major study with MacLane and Opal Whiteley and Juanita Harrison as central, and contrasted, figures illuminating female autobiographical strategies making use of the Western frontier.
- 1999: Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights; author: Rosemont, Penelope. Excerpts MacLane as proto-Surrealist.

Selection of Earlier Books (alphab. by author)

Atherton, Gertrude. Perch of the Devil. Frederick Stokes, New York,1914, pp 37, 173.
- - - - . Adventures of a Novelist, Liveright, New York, 1932, pp 490-492. (Linked ver. Jonathan Cape, London, 1932.)
Burlingame, Merrill K. and Toole, K. R. A History of Montana. Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York, 1957, vol. II, p 286.
Brooks, Van Wyck. The Confident Years. Dutton, New York, 1952, pp 319-320, 469.
Brownlow, Kevin. Behind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence and Crime - Films of Social<%0> Conscience in the Silent Era. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1990, pp 30-33, 514-515.
Canfield, Mary Cass. Grotesques - and other reflections. Harper & Bros., New York, 1927, pp 48-60. (Essay on I, Mary MacLane. Originally appeared as "Mary MacLane and the Apparent Agonies of Introspective Pathology," under the by-line "Peter Savage," in Vanity Fair, June 1917.)
Davenport, Warren. Butte and Montana Beneath the X-Ray - being a collection of editorials from the files of the Butte X-Ray during the years 1907-1908. X-Ray Publishing Co., Butte, 1908.
Derleth, August. Still, Small Voice. Appleton-Century, New York, 1940, pp 58-59. (Biography of MacLane's New York World interviewer, Zona Gale.)
Doran, George H. Chronicles of Barrabas (1884-1934) (text here), Harcourt-Brace, New York, 1934, p 30.
Faderman, Lillian. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women From the Renaissance to the Present. William Morrow, New York, 1981, pp 299-300.
- - - - . Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in America. Columbia University Press, New York, 1991, p 113.
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence and Nancy Peters. Literary San Francisco. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1980, p 92.
Foster, Jeannette Howard. Sex Variant Women in Literature. Vantage, New York, 1956. (Reprinted by Diana Press, Baltimore, 1975.)
Garland, Hamlin. Companions on the Trail. MacMillan, New York, 1931, p 147.
Goddard, Alan. Oldtimer's Handbook Illustrated. Bumont Press, Butte, 1976, p 43.
Hall, Dr G. Stanley. Adolescence - its psychology, and its relations to physiology, anthropology, sociology, sex, crime, religion, and education. Appleton, New York, 1904, vol. 1, p 559-560; vol. II, p 629.
Hanson, Patrick and Stephen Hanna. Film Review Index. Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1986, p 188.
Kaplan, Bert. The Inner World of Mental Illness. Harper & Row, New York, 1964, pp 263-279. (Reprints excerpts from The Story, with an introductory note.)
Katz, Jonathan Ned. Gay American History. Meridian, New York, 1992. (Rev. ed.; orig. pub. 1976.)
Kittredge, William and Annick Smith, eds. The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1991. (Reprints passages from The Story and I, Mary MacLane.)
Kramer, Sidney. A History of Stone & Kimball and Herbert S. Stone & Co., University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1940.
McKown, [Mrs.] T.D. The Devil's Letters to Mary MacLane. Interstate Book Co., Chicago, 1903. (Parody of The Story. Published anonymously; authorship information on record with the Library of Congress.)
Mencken, H.L. "The Butte Bashkirtseff," in Prejudices - first series, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1919, pp 123-128.
Novakovic, Bojana. The Story of Mary Maclane by Herself. (Script of Novakovic's 2012 stage performance as MacLane; toured Australia.)
Nyland, Waino. A Famous Mining Camp in Literature. Unpublished manuscript, 1926, p 5. (MS in Butte-Silver Bow Public Library collection.)
Richards, Dell. Lesbian Lists. Alyson Publications, Boston, 1990.
Ross, Ishbell. Ladies of the Press. Harper, New York, 1936, p 419.
Rudnick, Lois Palken. Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1984, pp 139-140.
Shores, Robert T. The Story of Willie Complain. Intermountain Publishing Co., Butte, 1902. (Parody of The Story. Included in Mocking Mary: The Humorists Vs. Miss MacLane, ed. Michael R. Brown.)
Spacks, Patricia Meyers. The Female Imagination. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1975, pp 6, 166, 171-180, 182, 184, 189, 192, 205, 218, 250, 316, 317.
Truitt, Evelyn M. Who Was Who on Screen. R.R. Bowker & Co., New York, 1977, p 293.
Workers of the Writers's Program of the W.P.A. in the State of Montana. Montana - A State Guide Book. The Viking Press, New York, 1939, p 103.
- - - - . Copper Camp: Stories of the World's Greatest Mining Town - Butte, Montana. Hastings House, New York, 1943, pp 1, 257-258.
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