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How she became 'a Bennington Girl'

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From: Washington Jewish Week
Date: 20060713
Author:Traiger, Lisa

Play based on author's transformation from sheltered Jewish life

The term 'Bennington girl' connoted someone who was flamboyantly (if not oppressively) artsy, bohemian, and also notoriously easy with sexual favors." So said memoirist Kathleen Norris in her fish-out-of-water coming of age tale, The Virgin of Bennington.

The Bennington College that Norris reflected on from the late 1960s was not much different from the Bennington that Washington, D.C.-based playwright Sidra Rausch recalls from her own youth nearly a decade earlier.

Rausch's How I Became a Bennington Girl is featured this ...

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