“Our All - American Almanac and Prophetic Messenger”

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Title“Our All - American Almanac and Prophetic Messenger”
Year for Search1923
AuthorsMillay, Edna St. Vincent(1892-1950)
Tertiary AuthorsBoyd, Nancy [pseud.]
Secondary TitleVanity Fair
Volume / Edition20.1
Pagination40
Date PublishedMarch 1924
ISBN Number9781800171671
ISSN Number0733-8899
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Selections from January, April, July, and September from an almanac that describing events taking place in a future that becomes more and more restrictive and puritanical. Happy New Year changed to Virtuous New York; dancing abolished; the Society for the Suppression of Imagination in Children censors children’s stories; women’s clothing regulated in the name of modesty; dancing outlawed; compulsory church attendance; co-education abolished; and more.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. as by Nancy Boyd in Distressing Dialogues. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924), 29-37. Rpt. under the author’s real name in her Poems and Satires. Ed. Tristram Fane Saunders (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester, Eng.: Carcarnet, 2021), 165-69
Pseudonym

Nancy Boyd [pseud.]
Holding Institutions

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Author Note

Female author (1892-1950)
Full Text

1923 [Millay, Edna St. Vincent] (1892-1950). “Our All - American Almanac and Prophetic Messenger.” By Nancy Boyd [pseud.]. Vanity Fair 20.1 (March 1923): 40. Rpt. as by Nancy Boyd in Distressing Dialogues. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924), 29-37. Rpt. under the author’s real name in her Poems and Satires. Ed. Tristram Fane Saunders (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester, Eng.: Carcarnet, 2021), 165-69. CSt, PSt 

Selections from January, April, July, and September from an almanac that describing events taking place in a future that becomes more and more restrictive and puritanical. Happy New Year changed to Virtuous New York; dancing abolished; the Society for the Suppression of Imagination in Children censors children’s stories; women’s clothing regulated in the name of modesty; dancing outlawed; compulsory church attendance; co-education abolished; and more. Female author.