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Looking for Betty MacDonald : The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I by Paula Becker; Project Muse is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Betty Bard MacDonald (1907–1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children's books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and The Egg and I sold its first million copies in less than a year. The public was drawn to MacDonald's vivacity, her offbeat humor, and her irreverent take on life. In 1947, the book was made into a movie starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, and spawned a series of films featuring MacDonald's Ma and Pa Kettle characters. MacDonald followed up the success of The Egg and I with the creation of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, a magical woman who cures children of their bad habits, and with three additional memoirs: The Plague and I (chronicling her time in a tuberculosis sanitarium just outside Seattle), Anybody Can Do Anything (recounting her madcap attempts to find work during the Great Depression), and Onions in the Stew (about her life raising two teenage daughters on Vashon Island). Author Paula Becker was granted full access to Betty MacDonald's archives, including mat

Who reads Looking for Betty MacDonald : The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I?

Author

Paula Becker; Project Muse

Publisher

Seattle: University of Washington Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780295999364

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.01 / 5 (81 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13