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"As a Woman Thinks" by Corra Harris is a reflective memoir written in the early 20th century. It charts the author’s “biography of a mind,” moving from a Georgia plantation childhood through a stern Protestant upbringing, into adult reflections on learning, writing, womanhood, and Southern identity, all delivered with incisive wit and moral candor.
The opening of this work rejects mysticism and promises a plainspoken record of thought, separating “mind” from “soul” and defending the first-person “I.” It sketches postwar Southern life and the author’s early years amid gardens, gates, and a road lined with daisies, alongside vivid superstitions and a formative lesson about dignity toward the enslaved and the poor. She recalls how the Old Testament—especially Genesis—shaped her imagination, even as she questions Jonah’s whale, and contrasts her steadfast, rule-keeping mother with her eloquent, errant father in a striking scene of family prayer and repentance. Early schooling brings a lov
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