TY - BOOK AU - Fraser,Kennedy TI - Ornament and silence: essays on women's lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer SN - 0375701125 AV - PN471 .F69 1998 U1 - 809/.89287 21 PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - Vintage Books KW - Artists' spouses KW - Authors' spouses KW - Women artists KW - Women authors KW - Spouses KW - sears N1 - 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; Adult; Follett Library Resources N2 - 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 ER -