ALICE BRADLEY—MORE FOR THE HISTORICAL RECORD.

ALICE BRADLEY—MORE FOR THE HISTORICAL RECORD. On page 155 of the biography by Julie Phillips, Alice Bradely Sheldon is quoted on her dissatisfaction with her female body. Alice told us in 1957 that she thought that she had loved horseback riding as an adolescent for the same reason that a lot of teenage girls do. She was dissatisfied with the weakness of the female body and valued the power that a horse gave her. I had no idea what to make of this at the time, but what I have selected from the Julie Philips book clarifies things. Alice told us about being at a camp when she was roughly our age where she was miserable. She didn’t like her roommate and didn’t like the housekeeping rules. There was a prize, the “Camp Beast”, a stuffed animal that was awarded to the neatest cabin, but Alice’s cabin, to the disgust of the roommate, earned only criticism because Alice was so messy. Then the roommate had to go to the infirmary for an extended period. Alice triumphed by cleaning the cabin once and then disturbing nothing in it, sleeping on the floor to avoid having to make the bed. She won the Camp Beast throughout the period the roommate was away.