Silences (59 page)

George Madden Martin.
Emmy Lou; Her Book and Heart
. op/f/j

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Ruth Holland.
Mill Child
. pb/f/j

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Katherine Mansfield. “The Doll’s House,” “Prelude,” and “At the Bay,” in
Short Stories
. pb/f

Dawnings, Flowerings, Strivings, Sexuality

*
 
May Sinclair.
Mary Olivier
. op/f

*
 
Dorothy
Richardson. “Honeycomb,”
Pilgrimage, Vol. 1
. h/f

*
 
Colette.
Claudine
. h/f;
Ripening Seed
. h/f

Rosamond Lehmann.
Dusty Answer
. op/f

Rosamond Lehmann.
Invitation to the Waltz
. op/f

Emily Carr.
The Book of Small Growing Pains
. pb/b

Anzia Yezierska.
Arrogant Beggar
(an immigrant girl). op/f

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Henry Handel Richardson.
Growing Pains
. op/f;
The End of Childhood
. op/f

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Isabel Bolton Miller.
Under
Gemini
. op/b;
Days of My Youth
. op/f

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Jessamyn West. Her girl self in
Hide and Seek
. h/b;
Cress Delahanty
. pb/f/j

Josephine Johnson.
Now in November
. op/f; “I Was 16,” in
Winter Orchard, and Other Stories
. op/f

Jo Sinclair.
The Changelings
. op/b

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Doris Lessing.
Martha Quest
. pb/f

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Hannah Green.
The Dead of the House
. pb/f

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Carson McCullers.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
. pb/f

Carson
McCullers.
Member of the Wedding
. pb/f

Violette Leduc. “The Golden Button,” in
The Woman with the Little Fox
. h/f

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Katherine Mansfield. “The Wind Blows” and “Garden Party,” in
Short Stories
. hc/f

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Christina Stead.
Salzburg Tales
. op/f; Teresa in
For Love Alone
. op/f

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Eudora Welty. “Livvie,” in
Selected Stories
. pb/f

Dorothy Parker. “The Waltz,” in
Collected Stories
. pb/f

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Betty Smith.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
. pb/f

Jean Stafford. “The Tea Time of Stout Hearted Ladies,” in
Best American Short Stories 1965
. pb/f

Maxine Kumin.
Through Dooms of Love
. h/f

Lenore Marshall.
Hill Is Level
. op/f

Jane Mayhall.
Cousin to Human
. h/f

Maureen Howard. “Bridgeport Bus,” in
Prize Stories 1962: The O’Henry Awards
. pb/f

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Alice Munro.
Lives of Girls and Women
. h/f;
Dance of the Happy Shade
. h/f

Blanche Boyd.
Nerves
. pb/f

Toni Cade Bambara.
Gorilla, My Love
. pb/f

Anne Moody.
Coming of Age in Mississippi
. pb/b

Joyce Varney.
Welsh Story
. h/b

Maya Angelou.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
. pb/b

Writers About Themselves

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Ellen Glasgow.
The Woman Within
. #/op/b

Storm Jameson.
Journey to the North
. #/h/b

Zelda Fitzgerald.
Save Me the Waltz
. #/p/f; also see the first part of Nancy
Milford’s
Zelda
. pb/b

Henry Handel Richardson.
Myself When Young
. op/b

Appearance

Doris Lessing. “Notes for a Case History,” in
A Man and Two Women
. pb/f

Rarities

Mary Webb.
Precious Bane
. op/f

Nancy Hale.
New England Girlhood
. pb/b

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Katherine Butler Hathaway.
The Little Locksmith
. op/b

Rape, Brutality, Degradations, Prostitution

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Jean Rhys.
Good Morning, Midnight
. op/f

Dorothy Parker.
“Mr. Durant,” in
Collected Stories
. pb/f

Christina Stead.
The Puzzleheaded Girl
. op/f

Olive Schreiner. Bertie in
From Man to Man
. op/f

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Samuel Richardson.
Clarissa
. pb/f

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Nelson Algren.
Never Come Morning
. pb/f

John Reed.
Daughter of the Revolution
. op/f

Eudora Welty. “At the Landing,” in
Wide Net, and Other Stories
. h/f

Katherine Mansfield. “The Little Governess,” in
Short Stories
. pb/f

Patricia Griffith. “Nights at O’Rourkes,” in
Prize Stories 1970
. pb/f

Bertolt Brecht. “The Infanticide of Marie Farrar,” in
Selected Poems
. pb/b

Assumption Girls Belong to Their Elders

Jean Stafford. “The Liberation,” in
Stories
. pb/f

Nancy Hale. “Rich People,” in
The Pattern of Perfection
. pb/f

PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Excerpt from
Momma
by Alta, copyright © 1974, reprinted by permission of the author and Times Change Press.

Excerpts from “Sylvia Plath: A Memoir” in
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
by A. Alvarez, copyright © 1971 by A. Alvarez, reprinted by permission of Gillon Aitkens Associates Ltd. for the author.

Excerpt from “Adam and Eve and the Child” in
Ladder of the
World’s Joy
by Sarah Appleton, copyright © 1977, reprinted by permission of the author.

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Poets at Work
by Charles D. Abbott, W. H. Auden, and Karl Shapiro, copyright © 1948 by Harcourt, Inc., and renewed 1976 by Henry David Abbott, Karl Shapiro, and Rudolf Arnheim, reprinted by permission of the publisher.

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The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose,
Volume II, 1939–1948
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The Jewish Woman of America
by Charlotte Baum, Paula Hyman, and Sonya Michel, copyright © 1976, reprinted by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

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The New Fiction: Interviews
with Innovative American Writers
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What the Woman Lived
edited by Ruth Limmer, copyright © 2003 by Mary Kinzie as trustee for the literary estate of Louise Bogan, reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.

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Joseph Conrad: Life and Letters
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Letters of Joseph Conrad
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The Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed
by Jane Cooper, copyright © 2000 by Jane Cooper, reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. “Eve” and “Waiting”
originally appeared in
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson
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The Letters of Emily Dickinson
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Excerpt from
The Trees and the Fields Went the Other
Way
by Evelyn Eaton, copyright © 1974 by Evelyn Eaton, reprinted with the permission of McIntosh and Otis, Inc., for the author.

Excerpts from
The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges
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Excerpts from
The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon
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Excerpt from
The Art of Sylvia Plath
by Richard Howard, edited by Charles Newman, copyright © 1970, reprinted by permission of the author.

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The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910–1913
by Franz Kafka, edited by Max Brod, translated by Joseph Kresh, copyright © 1948 and renewed 1976 by Schocken Books, reprinted by permission
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The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914–1923
by Franz Kafka, edited by Max Brod, translated by Martin Greenberg and Hannah Arendt, copyright © 1949 and renewed 1977 by Schocken Books, reprinted by permission of Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Excerpts from “The Munich Mannequins,” “Stings,” “Lesbos,” and “Kindness,” by
Sylvia Plath in
Ariel
, copyright © 1965 by Ted Hughes, and from “The Babysitters” in
Crossing the Water
, copyright © 1971 by Ted Hughes, reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and Faber and Faber, Inc.

Excerpt from “Incipience” in
Diving into the Wreck
by Adrienne Rich, copyright © 1973, reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Excerpt from the foreword to Susan Griffin’s
Voices: a play
by Adrienne Rich, copyright © 1975, by permission of the author.

Excerpt from “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision” in
On Lies, Secrets and Silence
by Adrienne Rich, copyright © 1979, reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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Pilgrimage
by Dorothy Richardson, copyright © 1916, reprinted by permission of Paterson Marsh Ltd. on behalf of The Estate
of Dorothy Richardson.

Excerpts from
Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke 1892–1919
translated by Jane Bannard Green and M. D. Herter Norton, copyright © 1945 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., and renewed 1972 by M. D. Herter Norton, reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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Rainer Maria Rilke: The Years in Switzerland
by J. R. von Salis, translated by N. K. Cruickshank,
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Excerpt from “Flee on Your Donkey,” in
Live or Die
by Anne Sexton, copyright © 1966 by Anne Sexton, renewed 1994 by Linda G. Sexton, reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company and Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. All rights reserved.

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A Room of One’s Own
by Virginia Woolf,
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A Writer’s Diary
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Collected Essays, Volume II
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Three Guineas
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To the Lighthouse
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SUBJECT INDEX

Absences as kind of silence,
147–148