There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

Weissenbach was to be the inspiration for the Opium Lady in Miss MacIntosh My Darling and her drug-based flights of fantasy were to make their way into the novel. Her parents separated when Marguerite Young was very young and Marguerite Young was raised by her maternal grandmother who nurtured her love of literature. Thomas ISBN 978-0-7432-1562-6.

Marguerite Vivian Young (August 28 1908 – November 17 1995) was an American author of poetry fiction non-fiction and criticism. ". Her work evinced an interest in social issues and environmentalism.