Fraser, Kennedy.

Ornament and silence : essays on women's lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer / Kennedy Fraser. - 1st Vintage Books ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1998. - xv, 247 p ; 21 cm.

Ornament and silence : Virginia Woolf -- Going on : Nina Berberova -- Warmed through and through : Edith Wharton -- My sister, myself -- A normal man : Henri Matisse and his women -- Love, longing, and letters : Louise Colet -- Traps and damask roses -- Fritillaries and hairy violets : Miriam Rotschild -- Stones of his house : Paul Scott -- Valentina -- The poet of everyday life : Johannes Vermeer -- Meat -- Demented pilgrimage : Germaine Greer -- There at the New Yorker : the novel I never wrote for William Shawn.

Booklist. New York Times. Wilson's Public Library.

Collection of fourteen essays most of which were previously published in the "New Yorker" and "Vogue" exploring the female voice and its presence in literature and art by examining the experiences of such women as Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Germaine Greer.

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PN471 / .F69 1998

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