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Work #1125 · Mid

This Is My Story

Eleanor Roosevelt
1937 · English
Autobiography · American liberal-progressive memoir tradition

Roosevelt's 1937 autobiography — childhood and marriage through 1924

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Attribute This Is My Story (Mid)
Time · Extent Finite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Singular
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Tradition
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

This Is My Story

The 1884-1924 first forty years of Roosevelt's life.

Space

This Is My Story

New York and Hyde Park; Washington in the Wilson years.

Matter

This Is My Story

The embodied young Eleanor — childhood, marriage, motherhood, political emergence.

Observer

This Is My Story

Roosevelt the autobiographer-political actor as proper subject.

Energy

This Is My Story

The personal-political energies of progressive-era American life.

Information

This Is My Story

The personal-historical content of the autobiography.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

This Is My Story

The book's reticence about the Mercer affair and other personal matters has been variously assessed — defenders see proper privacy, modern readers sometimes want more candor.