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- This is a true story - really a set of simple reminiscences - about a Norwegian immigrant family living in San Francisco in the early 1900s (somewhere between the 1906 earthquake and World War I).
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Forbes was a radio scriptwriter [4][5] before she began writing short stories. [6] Mama's Bank Account, [7][8][9] her best-known work, was published in 1943 and revolved around the daily struggles and aspirations of a Norwegian family living in San Francisco in the 1910s. [10]
- Kathryn Forbes
- 1943
Mama’s Bank Account is a novel by Kathryn Forbes, published in 1943. The story focuses on the thrift and practicality of “Mama,” the matriarch of a Norwegian family in early twentieth-century San Francisco. Katheryn Forbes was the pen name of author Kathryn McLean.
Forbes, born Kathryn Anderson, was the granddaughter of Norwegian immigrants. She was a writer best known for Mama's Bank Account, a fictionalized memoir about a Norwegian family in 1920s San Francisco. The book focused on the warmhearted family and its struggles and dreams.
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May 5, 2024 · First published in 1943, “Mama’s Bank Account” tells the heartwarming story of a Norwegian immigrant family living in San Francisco during the early 1900s. The story revolves around Mama, a hardworking and resourceful woman who runs her household with love, compassion, and unwavering optimism.
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Kathryn Forbes is actually the pen name for Kathryn Anderson, who became Kathryn McLean after her marriage in 1926. It’s been well-reported that Forbes’ novel drew more on the experiences of her grandmother, a Norwegian immigrant, than her own parents who were both born in the United States. This would have been her maternal grandmother, Annie Lund...
By 1910, they lived at 460 Scott Street. The 1910 census lists Lee Anderson as the head of household there with his wife Della, his children Ellis R. and Kathryn C., his mother Anna, his father-in-law, Frank Jesser, and nine other people listed as boarders. Curiously, Annie Jesser is not listed as living there, though she lived for nearly two more ...
Mama’s Bank Account is classified as a book of fiction and is written as a “fictionalized memoir.” Her family in the story is much larger than Kathryn’s actual family and most of them have different names. Many of the stories either happened to Kathryn’s grandparents, perhaps with embellishments, or are completely fictional. For example, the Castro...
This is a true story - really a set of simple reminiscences - about a Norwegian immigrant family living in San Francisco in the early 1900s (somewhere between the 1906 earthquake and World War I).
Forbes's book of short stories, Mama's Bank Account (1943), was dramatized by John Van Druten, produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstien II, and reached the Music Box Theater on Broadway...
