When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

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.