My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

In her writings Mary MacLane compared herself to another frank young memoirist Marie Bashkirtseff who died a few years after MacLane was born and H. ". Mary MacLane (May 1 1881 — August 1929) was a controversial Canadian-born American writer whose frank memoirs helped uMary MacLaner in the confessional style of autobiographical writing.