The Unfinished Life of Margaret Ann Fairbrook (1923-1968)

Margaret Ann Fairbrook wanted to be a writer.She grew up during the depression and went tocollege during the war years when men were absentor returning from war. In graduate school at BrownUniversity in a comparative literature class shemet a young German-Jewish WWII veteran whosefamily had escaped early from Nazi Germany. Herjournals and letters from those times show theirdeepening relationship and subsequent marriageand her struggles to see herself as an artist despitemarriage and motherhood.As a young mother frustrated and overwhelmed bythese competing demands Margaret began to readfeminist literature and to analyze the role of women inboth life and literature. Her early death leaving fourchildren and numerous un nished projects motivatedher daughter to publish her journals and letters in astory describing and comparing both of their lives.