The Little Locksmith

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First edition (publ. Coward-McCann)

The Little Locksmith is a memoir by Katharine Butler Hathaway about the effects of spinal tuberculosis on her childhood and adult life.

Synopsis

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Hathaway recounts a childhood immobilized on a treatment board, her hard-won mobility, artistic ambitions, and later life in Castine, Maine. Selections appeared in The Atlantic shortly before book publication.[1]

Publication history

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  • New York: Coward-McCann, 1943 (first ed.)[2]
  • New York: The Feminist Press, 2000 (reissue with afterword)[3]

Pop culture

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The book is referenced in the Gilmore Girls episode "Help Wanted".[4]

References

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