Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Looking for Betty Macdonald: The Bog, the Plague, Mrs Piggle Wiggle and I
    Looking for Betty Macdonald: The Bog, the Plague, Mrs Piggle Wiggle and I
    Looking for Betty Macdonald: The Bog, the Plague, Mrs Piggle Wiggle and I
    Audiobook7 hours

    Looking for Betty Macdonald: The Bog, the Plague, Mrs Piggle Wiggle and I

    Written by Paula Becker

    Narrated by Paula Becker

    5/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    “A passionate, wise and tender exploration of a surprisingly compelling life. Becker’s fascination for her subject is utterly contagious: I found myself late-night Googling Betty, determined to track down everything she ever wrote!”?Julie Myerson, author of The Stopped Heart: A Novel
    Betty MacDonald (1907–1958), The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children’s books, exploded onto the literary scene just as after WWII ended. Her first memoir, The Egg and I, was a much needed tonic to a war weary public and readers flocked to the hilarious memoir of her years on a chicken ranch on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. It sold one million copies in less than a year. “The Egg and I” was adapted to screen starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, and that film spawned a series of films featuring MacDonald’s love-able Ma and Pa Kettle characters.
    Betty MacDonald followed the success of The Egg with the creation of the now classic children’s character, the magical Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle who rids children of their bad habits. Three more memoirs followed: “The Plague and I” (a rare, and funny, account of life in a tuberculosis sanitarium), “Anybody Can Do Anything” (trust Betty to find humour in the Great Depression and the trials and tribulations of finding work), and “Onions in the Stew” (a funny look at raising two teenage daughters that still rings true today).
    Granted full access to the archives of Betty MacDonald’s, Paula Becker’s biography includes materials never before seen by any researcher. In this first official biography of this beloved Northwest storyteller, Becker tells us the story behind the memoirs and the reveals difference between the real Betty MacDonald and her literary persona.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPost Hypnotic Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2016
    ISBN9781772560831
    Looking for Betty Macdonald: The Bog, the Plague, Mrs Piggle Wiggle and I
    Author

    Paula Becker

    Paula Becker is a writer and historian living in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of the memoir A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction (University of Iowa Press), a finalist for the 2020 Washington State Book Award, and of the book Looking For Betty MacDonald: The Egg, The Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and I (University of Washington Press). Paula is also coauthor (with Alan J. Stein) of the books The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair and Its Legacy (Seattle Center Foundation) and Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Washington’s First World’s Fair (History Ink/HistoryLink in association with University of Washington Press). More than three hundred of Paula’s essays documenting all aspects of Washington’s history appear on HistoryLink.org, the online encyclopedia of Washington State history, where she is a historian.

    More audiobooks from Paula Becker

    Related to Looking for Betty Macdonald

    Related audiobooks

    Political Biographies For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      In Praise of Bossy Big Sisters

      Mar 3, 2017

      Like many young girls, I fell in love with the Little House series when I was about seven years old. What followed was two or three years of obsession; I read the books repeatedly, developed a fondness for long dresses, and regularly wore my hair in

      5 min read

    • Article

      Put the Best Books in Your Pocket

      Apr 4, 2019

      Win some of the world’s best books in e-book format, including must-reads by Octavia Butler, Joan Didion, Henry James, Rick Moody, and more. The post Put the Best Books in Your Pocket appeared first on The Millions.

      2 min read

    • Article

      A Modern Man In An Ancient World The Nigel Kneale Century

      Apr 21, 2022

      Born 100 years ago this April, Thomas Nigel Kneale (1922-2006; obituary FT218:28-29) was one of Britain’s most signifi-cant screenwriters. Kneale was described by Mark Gatiss as the inventor of modern television,1 and his works encompassed the techno

      16 min read

    • Article

      Lifting The Veil

      Dec 12, 2021

      Lifting The Veil
      2 min read

    • Article

      Biography & memoir

      Sep 20, 2023

      MARK O'CONNELL Granta, 288pp, £16.99 Reviewers were unanimous: this true-crime book was outstanding, surpassing its genre limits. Rob Doyle in the Guardian called it something new and dizzying, Borgesian’. O'Connell, he was delighted to discover, had

      9 min read

    • Article

      Patrick McCabe: ‘You Can Walk Into Some Irish Bars And Be In A Different Dimension’

      Apr 24, 2022

      At one o’clock on a Thursday lunchtime there’s not a seat to be had in the Canal Bar at the Creighton Hotel in Clones, up near the border in the midlands of Ireland. Regular couples and groups of old friends have got here early for the blackboarded s

      5 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Jan 4, 2024

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time

      Oct 23, 2020

      100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time
      27 min read

    • Article

      ‘Rejecting Hatred And Fear’: Why Powell And Pressburger’s Weird, Confounding Films Are Perfect For Our Times

      Oct 16, 2023

      It is May 1945 and night has fallen across Europe. The world is at war, cities are aflame and a Lancaster bomber is falling from the sky. Inside the burning cockpit, squadron leader Peter Carter gives his name and age then outlines his politics. “Con

      5 min read

    • Article

      Who Was Muriel Box, Britain’s Most Prolific Female Film Director?

      Feb 19, 2023

      In 1991, as a film student, I was offered £50 by a German women’s collective to shoot Muriel Box. But when the documentary director and I arrived at her home we were told that she was too ill to see us. She died a few months later aged 85. While I re

      6 min read

    • Article

      The World Of Writing

      Jan 7, 2021

      The World Of Writing
      4 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Aug 7, 2019

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      7 BEST BOOKS of 2022

      Aug 10, 2022

      7 BEST BOOKS of 2022
      5 min read

    • Article

      7 BEST BOOKS of 2022

      Aug 10, 2022

      7 BEST BOOKS of 2022
      5 min read

    • Article

      7 BEST BOOKS of 2022

      Aug 10, 2022

      7 BEST BOOKS of 2022
      5 min read

    • Article

      Novel Approaches

      Jun 14, 2023

      Novel Approaches
      7 min read

    • Article

      What The Butler Saw

      Nov 30, 2022

      What The Butler Saw
      3 min read

    • Article

      February Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month)

      Jan 30, 2023

      We wouldn’t dream of abandoning our vast biannual Most Anticipated Book Previews, but we thought a monthly reminder would be helpful (and give us a chance to note titles we missed the first time around). Here’s what we’re looking out for in February:

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Lie of Little Women

      Aug 14, 2018

      The Lie of Little Women
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Looking for Betty Macdonald

    5/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words