Editing Flannery O'Connor (section)

===Childhood===
O'Connor was born on March 25, 1925, in [[Savannah, Georgia]], the only child of Edward Francis O'Connor, a real estate agent, and Regina Cline, both of [[Irish Americans|Irish]] descent.{{sfnm |1a1=O'Connor |1y=1979 |1p=3 |2a1=O'Connor |2y=1979 |2p=233 |2ps=: "My papa was a real-estate man" (letter to [[Elizabeth Fenwick Way]], August 4, 1957) |3a1=Gooch |3y=2009 |3p=29}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/goreyguardian/out-about/focus-on-flannery-oconnor-at-write-by-the-sea-38201264.html|title=Focus on Flannery O'Connor at Write by the Sea|website=independent|date=June 14, 2019 |language=en|access-date=2020-03-13}}</ref> As an adult, she remembered herself as a "pigeon-toed child with a receding chin and a you-leave-me-alone-or-I'll-bite-you complex".<ref>{{harvnb|Gooch|2009|p=30}}; {{Cite journal |last=Bailey |first=Blake |title=Between the House and the Chicken Yard |journal=[[Virginia Quarterly Review]] |issue=Spring 2009 |pages=202–205 |url=http://www.vqronline.org/between-house-and-chicken-yard |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602052313/http://www.vqronline.org/between-house-and-chicken-yard |archive-date=June 2, 2016 |url-status=live |mode=cs2}}.</ref> The [[Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home]] museum is located at 207 E. Charlton Street on Lafayette Square.

In 1940, O'Connor and her family moved to [[Milledgeville, Georgia]], where they initially lived with her mother's family at the so-called 'Cline Mansion,' in town.<ref>{{cite web |title=Andalusia Farm – Home of Flannery O'Connor |website=Andalusia Farm |url=http://andalusiafarm.org/ |access-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> In 1937, her father was diagnosed with [[systemic lupus erythematosus]], which led to his eventual death on February 1, 1941.{{sfn|Giannone|2012|p=23}}  O'Connor and her mother continued to live in Milledgeville.{{sfn|O'Connor|1979|p=3}} In 1951, they moved to Andalusia Farm,<ref>{{cite web|title=Flannery O'Connor|url=http://andalusiafarm.org/flannery-oconnor-2/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417201404/http://andalusiafarm.org/flannery-oconnor-2/|archive-date=April 17, 2016|access-date=May 12, 2016|website=Andalusia Farm}}</ref> which is now a museum dedicated to O'Connor's work.