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Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer a book by Kennedy Fraser Germaine Greer, Edith Wharton, Literary Criticism, Virginia Woolf, About Women, Famous Men, The New Yorker, Women Life, New Yorker

In these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often rendered them invisible. In Ornament and Silence we see Virginia Woolf, haunted and eventually destroyed by the sexual secrets of her childhood. We meet Flaubert's theatrically importunate mistress, Louise Colet, the one woman who could briefly slip past the master's misogyny. Fraser offers vibrant portraits of the Russian…

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American Women Authors: This subject, cross-listed in Literature and Women's Studies, examines a range of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the present. The Age Of Innocence, Edith Wharton, Woman Authors, Pulitzer Prize, Women Writers, Women Writing, Writers And Poets, Writers Write, Famous Authors

This subject, cross-listed in Literature and Women's Studies, examines a range of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the present. It aims to introduce a number of literary genres and styles- the captivity narrative, slave novel, sensational, sentimental, realistic, and postmodern fiction- and also to address significant historical events in American women's history: Puritanism, the American Revolution, industrialization and urbanization in the nineteenth century, the…

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Old New York a book by Edith Wharton The House Of Mirth, Old New York, The Age Of Innocence, Edith Wharton, Short Novels, Book Cover Design, The Age, The Guardian, The Four

Edith Wharton made the world of Old New York her own, the wealthy high society so powerfully depicted in these three elegantly ironic novels. Revolving around the marriage question, they explore the dilemma of women and men held within the rigid bounds of social convention. Thus in The House of Mirth, the novel that first brought Edith Wharton to fame, the complex, poignant heroine Lily Bart must either break away and find a more meaningful existence, or become a part of the superficial…

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