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	Grace Metalious
		She was born Marie Grace DeRepentigny on September 8, 1924, in Manchester, New Hampshire.
		Grace Metalious -- the "Pandora in bluejeans" -- was said by some to be a lousy writer and a purveyer of filth, but time goes by, things change, and then the whole game starts over again with new rules.
		The Grace Metalious story is a fascinating one, almost as interesting as the stories she told in her books.
	www.meekermuseum.com /peytonp.html (341 words)

	Grace Metalious - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grace Metalious (1924 - 1964) was an American author, best known for the controversial novel Peyton Place.
		Metalious - the "Pandora in bluejeans" - was said by some to be a dreadful writer and a purveyer of filth, but her most famous book changed the publishing industry forever.
		Metalious died of alcoholism on February 25, 1964.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grace_Metalious (290 words)

	Biography for Grace Metalious (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Grace Metalious, the author of one of the most notorious and best-selling novels of the 1950s, was born Marie Grace de Repentigny on September 8, 1924, in Manchester, New Hampshire.
		Grace was inspired by the story of a real-life murder that had rocked New Hampshire in the post-war years, in which a young girl had shot her father who had been molesting her and hid his corpse in a barn.
		Grace Metalious will be remembered as the first popular women writer that pried the lid of off societal hypocrisy and violence directed towards women, a small-minded world that smoothed over the horrors of life through conformity to an ideal of polite, middle-class virtues that were more honored in the breach than in the observance.
	www.imdb.com /Bio?Metalious,+Grace (2266 words)

	I Remember Grace Metalious by Lynne Snierson
		Grace and my dad were so close that even though she predeceased him by some 25 years, the Associated Press and USA Today identified him in the lead sentence of his obituary as her attorney, when he died in 1988.
		Grace visited often, and I was accustomed to the lilt of her laughter around my house, as well as to giving up my room when she'd had a few too many.
		Grace had a very beautiful and special spirit, and as it was unbridled, it filled her home and surrounded her like an aura.
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	Grace Metalious
		Metalious' big hit eventually spawned a film and several sequels, although she was never regarded seriously as a writer.
		Within a few short years of her meteoric success, Metalious, vainly trying to replicate the achievements of her first book and by now immersed in alcoholism and depression, had grown from a life of poverty to one of international acclaim, from a young girl who had nothing to a woman who had it all.
		Marie Grace de Repentigny Metalious died of cirrhosis of the liver and was buried in a simple grave in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, in 1964, a short eight years after her most famous book was published.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-090804-metalious.html (1016 words)

	Grace Metalious -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Grace Metalious (1924 - 1964) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American author, best known for the controversial novel (Click link for more info and facts about Peyton Place) Peyton Place.
		She was born into poverty and a broken home as Marie Grace de Repentigny on September 8, 1924 in (Click link for more info and facts about Manchester, New Hampshire) Manchester, New Hampshire.
		Her other novels, which never achieved the same success as her first, were (Click link for more info and facts about Return to Peyton Place) Return to Peyton Place (1959), The Tight White Collar (1961) and No Adam in Eden (1963).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/grace_metalious.htm (370 words)

	A Look at Grace Metalious
		Grace Metalious was born September 8, 1924 in the mill town of Manchester, New Hampshire.
		Grace's children were treated horribly at school because their mother wrote a "dirty book." And it is rumored that Grace's husband George lost his job because of the "Peyton Place." Grace became disillusioned with the whole writing and publishing business.
		When Grace was young and with children, much of her identity as a woman was found in her ability to have children and be a mother.
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	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Grace Metalious
		Grace Metalious is best known as the author of the infamous Peyton Place,; a book that caused a social upheaval even before it was published in 1956.
		Metalious became famous as the housewife who wrote a bestseller; she was referred to as "Pandora in Blue Jeans," the simple small-town woman who opened the box of sins.
		The citizens of Gilmanton were outraged, certain that Grace Metalious was describing real people in the book and sure that she had brought shame and unwarranted notoriety to their town.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200833 (942 words)

	Grace Metalious: Peyton Place's Real Victim: Fame & Scandal: vanityfair.com
		It brought fame and misfortune to Grace Metalious, the bawdy, rebellious housewife who wrote it, and outraged the citizens of Gilmanton—"the real Peyton Place." With a Metalious biopic in production, the author charts the tumultuous celebrity, emotional flameout, and sordid death, at 39, of an unlikely cultural trailblazer.
		Born Marie Grace DeRepentigny (prone to embellish, she would later state that her birth name had been Grace Marie Antoinette Jeanne d'Arc de Repentigny), she'd been brought up with an air of French snobbery that belied the modest apartment she'd shared with her mother, grandmother, and sister.
		Two days later, Grace Metalious, the frowsy New Hampshire housewife whose bombshell would rock American publishing, slid into a booth at '21' with her dashing agent and toasted to her success with what she remembered as a daiquiri "all pale green and so cold it hurt my teeth."
	www.vanityfair.com /fame/features/2006/03/peytonplace200603 (1603 words)

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		Metalious' novel begins in Indian summer, with a detailed description of the town's layout--and, of course, the picture I formed of Peyton Place in my head looked a lot like those calendars you see with photographs of New England in autumn.
		Through Metalious' omniscient narrative voice, readers are privy to a bevy of the townspeople's secrets, from the daily enemas given to Little Norman Page by his mother, to the child abuse of the worst kind occurrring in the Cross shack across town.
		Metalious' discussions of these controversial issues are deftly rendered, sympathetically written; it is clear she was trying to do more with her tale than produce a piece of writing that was indecent for indecency's sake.
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	Inside Peyton Place: The Life of Grace Metalious (Banner Book) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Grace Metalious said that she highly doubted if anyone would remember the title "Peyton Place" after her death.
		Although it was continually associated with Grace, she had no control over the popular movie or sensational television series.
		Grace Metalious was independent, outspoken, and certainly not a conformist.
	www.nonfictionweb.com /Inside_Peyton_Place_The_Life_of_Grace_Metalious_1578062683.html (341 words)

	Inside Peyton Place
		Grace Metalious, an unpretentious housewife from the wrong side of the tracks, had written an explosive bestseller.
		Grace refused to be confined by the fifties' notions of a woman's place.
		Grace Metalious's life is the material modern novels are made of.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/spring2000/inside_peyton_place.html (375 words)

	Peyton Place
		Metalious wrote about incest, abortion, sex, rape, adultery, repression, lust, and the secrets of small town New England, things that were never discussed before in conservative America.
		Metalious based Selena’s sexual abuse on Jane Glenn, a local girl who confessed in 1947 to killing her father and burying him, with the help of her younger brother, in the barn.
		Unfortunately, Grace Metalious died a few months before the show aired at the age of 39 from a “chronic liver disease.” Peyton Place is such a significant factor in literary history because it crossed a barrier from conservative to raunchy, bad books.
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		Metalious’ best known novel, Peyton Place, was a bestseller and a media phenomenon in the mid-1950s and 1960s, creating a stir because of its depictions of teenage sexuality, incest, and illegal abortion.
		Metalious herself was of French Canadian ancestry, born in 1924 in Machester, New Hampshire, about one hour from the hometown of another celebrated French Canadian writer of the 1950s – Jack Kerouac.
		Metalious’ development of the Peyton plot focuses on racial difference, setting up a conditional shift in power as the townspeople live their lives in the physical and symbolic shadow of Samuel Peyton.
	www.uwec.edu /jonesm/DocsHTML/blacksfreaksandgeeksbyDRDavidJones.htm (2203 words)

	Grace Metalious
		Alternatively, it's perfectly possible to see these books in a proto-feminist light, with strong female characters striving to exist as individuals in their own right without being dependent on men.
		Whatever, I'd happily argue that Metalious was a serious and accomplished novelist.
		Metalious' own favourite is said to have been The Tight White Collar, but I have a very soft spot for No Adam In Eden as well...
	www.trashfiction.co.uk /grace_metalious.html (391 words)

	Family Movies :: Looking for Peyton Place : A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The townspeople distrust Annie for no reason except that she was a fan of Grace Metalious when she was growing up.
		Though Grace actually lived in a nearby town, the residents of Middle River have always believed she used them as the model for her revolutionary novel, and some even insist Annie's grandmother was the model for one of Grace's most scandalous characters.
		Coming face-to-face with decades of secrets and lies, she knows she must find the strength to move beyond the legacy of Grace Metalious, defying her past to heal the wounds of the town and her own family.
	www.familymovies.com /0743246446/Looking_for_Peyton_Place__A_Novel.html (1352 words)

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		Inside Peyton Place Biography - Women's Studies Inside Peyton PlaceThe Life of Grace Metalious By Emily Toth The juicy biography of the scandalous novelist who lifted the lid off a New England town Indian summer is like a woman.
		Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will come at all, nor for how long she will stay.
		Tracing the television shows, the films, the Peyton Place sequels and later novels, Toth shows Grace plagued by periods of self-doubt and loneliness, striving desperately and feeling pressured to create another "hit." Grace Metalious's life is the material modern novels are made of.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/spring2000/inside_peyton_place.txt (406 words)

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		Perreault will discuss Grace Metalious' local roots in Manchester, including her French-Canadian family, and the impact her background had on her work.
		Special displays on Grace Metalious and her books will be on view during the month of April at the Manchester Historic Association (at the MHA Research Library, 129 Amherst Street); the Manchester City Library (main branch on Pine Street); Central High School, and the library of the University of New Hampshire at Manchester.
		Also, George Metalious, Grace Metalious' former husband, will be interviewed by Central High students for an article that will be published in the student newspaper, The Little Green.
	www.manchesterhistoric.org /Metalious.htm (754 words)

	Salon Books \| Bad dirt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Born Grace DeRepentigny, Metalious was a hard-drinking, sexually frank French Canadian from a rough working-class family and, according to legend, she was too drunk and too randy to compose cogent prose.
		In the mind's eye of many Gilmantonites, troubled Grace Metalious will be forever escaping her rented tar-paper shack on Loon Pond Road and trundling up Frisky Hill to find solace -- and serious editorial help -- at Shaky Acres, as Laurie's commodious old farmhouse is called.
		Grace died of cirrhosis in 1964, when she was 39.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/04/15/peyton/print.html (1600 words)

	Peyton Place : Grace Metalious (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I enjoyed all of the characters Grace Metalious sculpted, and I also liked the plot very much.
		Grace Metalious constructed a perfect web of links between the characters to tell her story.
		At the center was the evolving relationship between Constance, her husband Tom (Mike) and her daughter, Allison.
	www.bookreviewsandsummaries.com /books41/1555534007.htm (196 words)

	Grace Metalious Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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	Armchair Travel: James Aswell and Grace Metalious
		Anyway I've been trying to find out how many copies of Metalious' first novel were sold, but all I've learned is that 60,000 were sold in the first ten days, and it was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year.
		I have to confess that despite my admiration for Grace Metalious as a writer, and despite the fact that I collect her books, I have not read "Peyton Place." But my daughter Sarah did, when she was about thirteen years old.
		Another pretty rare find is a book by George Metalious (Grace's husband) and June O'Shea called "The Girl From Peyton Place." I haven't read this one either, but I did pick out this quotation to show that when Grace wrote about scandalous behavior, she was writing from firsthand experience.
	www.gonomad.com /armchairtravel/2006/05/james-aswell-and-grace-metalious.html (809 words)

	Grace METALIOUS : astrology and planets, Map of the Heavens, Interactive Birth Chart
		Just click on the Dynamic Natal Chart of Grace METALIOUS with the positions of planets, astrological houses, and the list of the aspects with orbs in degrees and minutes.
		Only 6 diagrams out of 11 are displayed, and precision of these computations is of course not of the same level than those for the case of the known time of the event.
		Texts are not translated, so if you wish to read interpretations associated with theses computations, you need to go to the full astrological Portrait of Grace METALIOUS and to use this Automatic Free Website Translator.
	www.astrotheme.fr /en/portraits/677XjxdrRju5.htm (589 words)

	Barbara Delinsky: Library: Looking for Peyton Place (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		When Grace Metalious's PEYTON PLACE was first published in 1956, it had a profound effect on Middle River.
		When Annie became an aspiring writer herself, she was made the scapegoat for the angst the town had suffered at the hands of Grace Metalious.
		I was intrigued by the way Grace created her small town with its cast of diverse and often complex characters.
	www.barbaradelinsky.com /library/looking.htm (477 words)

	Tankarnas hotell » Blog Archive » Grace Metalious (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Det läste jag idag i tidningen Vi:s senaste nummer om vad som kommer i nästa nummer.
		I Vi står det att "få svenskar känner till" Grace Metalious.
		Det som är så fascinerande med Grace Metalious bok är att hon vågade skriva om dubbelmoralen i det amerikanska 50-talssamhället, när dets om var svårt sopades under mattan i det nya ultramoderna samhället där alla skulle vara präktiga och lyckliga.
	www.evagun.se /blogg/2006/09/10/486 (202 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Looking for Peyton Place : A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Though Annie is less concerned with gossip than possible mercury poisoning, Metalious speaks to her from beyond the grave, egging her on in her investigation.
		Among the residents Grace made famous were Connie Barnes and her daughter, Alyssa, though Connie is long dead and Alyssa has just died--under mysterious circumstances, if you ask her daughter, acclaimed novelist Annie Barnes.
		When Annie returns to the town she'd forsaken to investigate her mother's death, the townspeople fear she's back to follow in Grace's footsteps by exposing a new generation of dirty little secrets in a tell-all novel--and they'll stop at nothing to see that she never writes a single word.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743246446?v=glance (1843 words)

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