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I’ve Got Some Lovin’ to Do: The Diaries of a Roaring Twenties Teen (Vol 1) (iUniverse, 2012)

Doris Bailey Murphy ’38 [edited by Julia Park Tracey]

Reviewed by Mary Emily O’Hara ’12
Doris Bailey Murphy

It’s 1925 and Doris, age 15, has chopped off her hair, raised her skirts, climbed out a window, and driven after a cute boy. Seldom have the roaring ’20s had a more engaging chronicler than the late community activist Doris Bailey Murphy, who died last year at the age of 101. Fortunately, she left behind extensive diaries that provide a vivid window into the Jazz Age and the Depression era, including her time at Reed. Thanks to her great-niece, writer Julia Park Tracey, the diaries have now found a wider audience.

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