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The Little Locksmith

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The Little Locksmith
First edition
PublisherCoward-McCann

The Little Locksmith is a memoir by Katharine Butler Hathaway about the effects of spinal tuberculosis on her childhood and adult life.

Synopsis

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Hathaway recounts a childhood immobilized on a treatment board, her hard-won mobility, artistic ambitions, and later life in Castine, Maine. Selections appeared in The Atlantic shortly before book publication.[1]

Publication history

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  • New York: Coward-McCann, 1943 (first ed.)[2]
  • New York: The Feminist Press, 2000 (reissue with afterword)[3]

Pop culture

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The book is referenced in the Gilmore Girls episode "Help Wanted".[4]

References

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  1. Hathaway, Katharine Butler (February 1, 1943). "The Little Locksmith". The Atlantic. ISSN 2151-9463. Retrieved September 13, 2025.
  2. Wagenknecht, Edward (October 24, 1943). "A Shining Faith; The Little Locksmith". The New York Times. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
  3. "The Little Locksmith: A Memoir". Feminist Press. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
  4. "2.20 - Help Wanted - (41)". Retrieved September 2, 2016.