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Beauty Before Comfort: A Memoir
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Beauty Before Comfort: A Memoir
Allison Glock
A beautiful and touching memoir of Allison Glock’s grandmother, this is both an extraordinary portrait of a truly remarkable woman and a engaging history of 20th century Appalachia.'"Beauty before comfort," she would say as she trimmed her brows and cinched her belts corset-tight. My grandmother is so beautiful she has never once been comfortable, a cross she bears with the subtlety of Liberace.'So writes Allison Glock at the start of her remarkable memoir, the story of her maternal grandmother, Aneita Jean Blair, and the extraordinary life she led growing up in Chester, West Virginia, a sooty factory town wedged between the unforgiving Appalachians and the Ohio River. As a girl, a young woman, and even late in life as a grandmother, Aneita Jean had a magnetism that attracted and enchanted all she came into contact with. Allison Glock takes us through the stages of her life, capturing not only the irrepressible vitality of a woman born ahead of her time, but also the eccentricities of a small-town, working-class West Virginia family, trying to survive the Great Depression and the Second World War.Aneita, blessed with 'the body of Miss America' was determined that she would escape the town that was holding her back. That she never made it, and the pattern that her life ended up taking, is just another small-town tragedy of the vanished dreams of one extraordinary person. Allison Glock writes with humour, lyricism and beauty to create a truly unforgettable portrait of a remarkable person.
Beauty Before Comfort
A MEMOIR
Allison Glock
For Dixie Jean and Matilda Mercy Law
There’s something about the pottery. You build up quite a companionship, a comradeship, whatever you call it. You take a little bit of clay and mix it up with water and fire it and make something out of it—there’s romance in that. It just gets in your blood.
—ED CARSON, POTTER, 1985
No potter that ever lived can be overlooked, no ware, however humble, can be despised.
—SATURDAY REVIEW, 1879
Everyone has a story to tell. This is the story of my grandmother as she chooses to remember it.
Contents
Cover (#u23c1eac6-199d-586d-9c89-369e4b6a63cb)
Title Page (#ubacdb748-9eec-5540-9d42-0d38746516a7)
Dedication (#ub62ac7b5-be04-547c-bc36-730b65ffd892)
Epigraph (a) (#u1b70e82b-aa45-5df1-855d-dad02a9b11c7)
Epigraph (b) (#u4c7ae2a8-8946-5e70-a725-f3842511a151)
CHAPTER ONE (#ucb3b7631-9dc8-5df1-923f-deba00a540df)
CHAPTER TWO (#ue99d1c4a-2b16-569f-81c4-e398864aabdd)
CHAPTER THREE (#uf9000d70-4246-5ab9-b840-ac04485b3acf)
CHAPTER FOUR (#ub73c45b0-d4ba-528f-a379-53377f110b92)
CHAPTER FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SIX (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER EIGHT (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER NINE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER ELEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWELVE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
EPILOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (#litres_trial_promo)
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (#litres_trial_promo)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER ONE (#ulink_fc5c3027-d9b2-5bf3-8b31-2c1ea4bea6fb)
Bless her heart.
That’s what we say. It’s a catchall.
“Aunt Sue’s getting divorced.” Bless her heart.
“Velma lost her job at the bank.” Bless her heart.
“Crystal backed over the cat with her Cadillac.”
Bless her heart. Bless the cat’s heart.
And so that is what we say when we are told, “Your grandmother is getting worse.”
Bless her heart, we say, although really her heart has never been better. The problem is, as always, in her head.
Allison Glock
A beautiful and touching memoir of Allison Glock’s grandmother, this is both an extraordinary portrait of a truly remarkable woman and a engaging history of 20th century Appalachia.'"Beauty before comfort," she would say as she trimmed her brows and cinched her belts corset-tight. My grandmother is so beautiful she has never once been comfortable, a cross she bears with the subtlety of Liberace.'So writes Allison Glock at the start of her remarkable memoir, the story of her maternal grandmother, Aneita Jean Blair, and the extraordinary life she led growing up in Chester, West Virginia, a sooty factory town wedged between the unforgiving Appalachians and the Ohio River. As a girl, a young woman, and even late in life as a grandmother, Aneita Jean had a magnetism that attracted and enchanted all she came into contact with. Allison Glock takes us through the stages of her life, capturing not only the irrepressible vitality of a woman born ahead of her time, but also the eccentricities of a small-town, working-class West Virginia family, trying to survive the Great Depression and the Second World War.Aneita, blessed with 'the body of Miss America' was determined that she would escape the town that was holding her back. That she never made it, and the pattern that her life ended up taking, is just another small-town tragedy of the vanished dreams of one extraordinary person. Allison Glock writes with humour, lyricism and beauty to create a truly unforgettable portrait of a remarkable person.
Beauty Before Comfort
A MEMOIR
Allison Glock
For Dixie Jean and Matilda Mercy Law
There’s something about the pottery. You build up quite a companionship, a comradeship, whatever you call it. You take a little bit of clay and mix it up with water and fire it and make something out of it—there’s romance in that. It just gets in your blood.
—ED CARSON, POTTER, 1985
No potter that ever lived can be overlooked, no ware, however humble, can be despised.
—SATURDAY REVIEW, 1879
Everyone has a story to tell. This is the story of my grandmother as she chooses to remember it.
Contents
Cover (#u23c1eac6-199d-586d-9c89-369e4b6a63cb)
Title Page (#ubacdb748-9eec-5540-9d42-0d38746516a7)
Dedication (#ub62ac7b5-be04-547c-bc36-730b65ffd892)
Epigraph (a) (#u1b70e82b-aa45-5df1-855d-dad02a9b11c7)
Epigraph (b) (#u4c7ae2a8-8946-5e70-a725-f3842511a151)
CHAPTER ONE (#ucb3b7631-9dc8-5df1-923f-deba00a540df)
CHAPTER TWO (#ue99d1c4a-2b16-569f-81c4-e398864aabdd)
CHAPTER THREE (#uf9000d70-4246-5ab9-b840-ac04485b3acf)
CHAPTER FOUR (#ub73c45b0-d4ba-528f-a379-53377f110b92)
CHAPTER FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SIX (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER EIGHT (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER NINE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER ELEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWELVE (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)
EPILOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (#litres_trial_promo)
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (#litres_trial_promo)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER ONE (#ulink_fc5c3027-d9b2-5bf3-8b31-2c1ea4bea6fb)
Bless her heart.
That’s what we say. It’s a catchall.
“Aunt Sue’s getting divorced.” Bless her heart.
“Velma lost her job at the bank.” Bless her heart.
“Crystal backed over the cat with her Cadillac.”
Bless her heart. Bless the cat’s heart.
And so that is what we say when we are told, “Your grandmother is getting worse.”
Bless her heart, we say, although really her heart has never been better. The problem is, as always, in her head.
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