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  1. Olive Higgins was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1894, she was reported to have suffered a nervous breakdown that lasted nearly two years. [1] She was a 1904 graduate of Smith College and married Louis Prouty in 1907. The couple moved to Brookline, Massachusetts in 1908. They had four children: Richard, Jane, Alice and Olivia ...

  2. Olive Higgins Prouty has 44 books on Goodreads with 3827 ratings. Olive Higgins Prouty’s most popular book is Now, Voyager.

  3. Fabia. by Olive Higgins Prouty. 3.78 · 9 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 1 edition. Want to Read. Rate it: Five standalone novels about the fictional Vale family. White Fawn, Lisa Vale, Now, Voyager, Anthropology: an introduction to the study of man and civili...

  4. Olive Higgins Prouty's 1941 novel Now, Voyager provides an even richer, deeper portrait of the inner life of its protagonist and the society she inhabits. Viewed from a distance of more than 60 years, it also offers fresh and quietly radical takes on psychiatric treatment, traditional family life, female desire, and women's agency.

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  5. PROUTY, Olive Higgins. Born 10 January 1882, Worcester, Massachusetts; died 24 March 1974, Brookline, Massachusetts. Daughter of Milton P. and Katharine Chapin Higgins; married Lewis I. Prouty, 1907. Olive Higgins Prouty was born into a loving New England family of comfortable means but had a troubled childhood saddened by the death of a ...

  6. Olive Higgins Prouty (1882-1974) was an American novelist who wrote popular books such as Stella Dallas and Now, Voyager. She also helped Sylvia Plath in her mental crisis and wrote a memoir about her writing career.

  7. Novel by Olive Higgins Prouty. Stella Dallas is a 1923 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty and published by Houghton Mifflin, written in response to the death of her three-year-old daughter from encephalitis. [1] It tells the story of the eponymous protagonist, a working-class woman who marries a rich businessman but struggles to adapt to her new life.

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