My Little Nothing

Lucy Kerr

A suitable marriage! I hate a suitable marriage.
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14 min

Mary MacLane wrote her audacious diary in 1901 at nineteen years old. Obsessed with marrying the Devil as a liberation from Montana’s “barren Nothingness,” she finally summons him. Through on-screen text and a sublime, forested Devil, we enter their conversation - her startling frankness and wild ambition echoing through generations of young women writing, typing, blogging from their bedrooms.