Background
Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux was born on March 17, 1899, in Holden, Missouri, United States. Her early childhood was spent on a small Missouri farm, but then her family moved frequently, to Arkansas and Washington State, among other places.
(Set against the colorful and changing backdrop of twentie...)
Set against the colorful and changing backdrop of twentieth-century American history, the memoirs of a ninety-eight-year-old woman chronicle her life from the turn of the century, through two world wars and an abusive marriage, to the present day.
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1997
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Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux was born on March 17, 1899, in Holden, Missouri, United States. Her early childhood was spent on a small Missouri farm, but then her family moved frequently, to Arkansas and Washington State, among other places.
Foveaux attended a writing class at the Manhattan (Kansas) Adult Learning Center at the age of 80.
Foveaux got her first job in 1914. During her long career, she worked variously as a salesperson, grocery store clerk, laundry worker, and nurse’s aide.
She began to write her autobiographical work in 1977 and it took several years to write it. The book came to light only after an article about it appeared in 1997 on the front page of The Wall Street Journal. The article set off a frenzy to buy the book, leading to the auction, where it was sold for $1 million.
Jessie Foveaux is best known as the author of Any Given Day: The Life and Times of Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux, an autobiographical work that created a sensation in the publishing industry in 1997. In a 1997 auction, Warner Books paid $1 million for the rights to publish the book.
In its 208 pages, Foveaux told of the quietly heroic struggle of a woman to win her independence while she was in a bitter marriage to an alcoholic. She worked in a laundry and as a nurse's aid to support her eight children before and after the divorce.
(Set against the colorful and changing backdrop of twentie...)
1997Foveaux married Bill Foveaux in 1919, however, the marriage ended with a divorce. Foveaux had eight children.
She is survived by two daughters, Faye Marie Rutledge and Aleda Torgerson and a son, Marion, as well as 16 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
