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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, Looking In A Mirror, Historical Recipes, Library Of Alexandria, Edith Wharton, Tbr List, Book Wishlist, Art Fabric, Literary Criticism

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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Old New York a book by Edith Wharton Women In Society, Keen Style, The House Of Mirth, Historical Recipes, The Age Of Innocence, Short Novels, Edith Wharton, Old New York, Unread Books

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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