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- Mrs._Mike abstract "Mrs. Mike, the Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan is a novel by Benedict and Nancy Mars Freedman set in the Canadian wilderness in the early 1900s. Considered by some a young adult classic, Mrs. Mike was initially serialized in the Atlantic Monthly and was the March 1947 selection of the Literary Guild. It was a critical and popular success, with 27 non-US editions. The work combines the landscape and hardships of the Great Canadian North with a love story between Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Mike Flannigan and a young Katherine Mary O'Fallon, newly arrived from Boston, Massachusetts.The book was based on the stories of Bostonian Katherine Mary O'Fallon Flannigan (1899-1954). According to novel's fictionalized account, in 1907 and at the age 16 O'Fallon travelled to Calgary, Alberta, to visit an uncle and recover from pleurisy. There she met and married Mike Flannigan, a sergeant with the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, and moved with him to isolated posts in the mountain and lake regions of British Columbia and northern Alberta (Lesser Slave Lake). In the novel the Flannigans' two children die of diphtheria, and the book ends with the couple adopting three orphaned children.Feeling that her story should be made into a movie, she went to Los Angeles in 1945 but received little interest. However, an agent felt it might be adapted into a book and introduced her to Benedict and Nancy Freedman. Based on a five-page outline, extended interviews and their own research, they wrote a novel based on Flannigan's story. Late in life, the Freedmans reaffirmed that the book was a novel and that aspects of Flannigan's life in the book had been invented, including the adoption of three children. They stated that following Sgt. Flannigan's death in 1944 from a ruptured appendix, Katherine Mary Flannigan had left the North. Benedict Freedman stated that "the most important scenes—for example, when she leaves Mike and goes back to Boston—we didn't invent that. But we also didn't check her account of things."A 1947 review of the book by RCMP member C.D. LaNauze − who was stationed in Grouard at the time depicted in the novel − noted numerous discrepancies in the novel: a journey that required "weeks on the trail" in the novel was actually a "easy five day journey" according to LaNauze; there was no diphtheria epidemic and in fact Grouard was served by a doctor at the time; and confirmed bachelor George Adams, not a Michael Flannigan, was the RCMP sergeant. LaNauze stated that "nothing in [the book] even approaches the truth".A movie version, starring Evelyn Keyes as Katherine Mary and Dick Powell as Mike, was released in 1949. Flannigan sued the movie producers and authors for $25,000; the suit was dismissed because she had a legal claim only against the authors, not the producers.The Freedmans published two sequels to the Mrs. Mike novel, "The Search for Joyful" in 2002 and "Kathy Little Bird" in 2003.The real Katherine Mary Flannigan married John P. Knox, and lived in Vancouver. In 1951, she published a book of her own, The Faith of Mrs. Kelleen, which was set in 1880s Ireland and was based on the story of her great-aunt. She died on August 8, 1954, while visiting family and friends in Calgary.".
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- Mrs._Mike comment "Mrs. Mike, the Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan is a novel by Benedict and Nancy Mars Freedman set in the Canadian wilderness in the early 1900s. Considered by some a young adult classic, Mrs. Mike was initially serialized in the Atlantic Monthly and was the March 1947 selection of the Literary Guild. It was a critical and popular success, with 27 non-US editions.".
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