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A house of good proportion: images of women in literature.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murray, Michele, compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Literary collections.
- Women.
- Femmes--Anthologies.
- Local Subjects:
- Femmes--Anthologies.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 379 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon and Schuster, [1973]
- Contents:
- Venus
- Aghia Sophia / Catherine De Vinck.
- The little girl. White mule / William Carlos Williams
- The threshold / Dorothea Rutherford.
- The young girl. Olivia / Olivia (Dorothy Bussy)
- Little women / Louisa May Alcott.
- The virgin. Clarissa / Samuel Richardson
- Sex / Jean Valentine.
- Women in love. Another view into love / Carol Bergé
- from Ghazals. Homage to Ghalib / Adrienne Rich
- Love that I bear / H.D.
- Two poems / Emily Dickinson
- Martha's lady / Sarah Orne Jewett
- The awakening / Kate Chopin.
- Independent women. Villette / Charlotte Brontë̈
- The Bostonians / Henry James
- Pilgrimage / Dorothy Richardson
- Stepping westward / Denise Levertov
- On Barbara's shore / Diane Wakoski.
- The wife. Family happiness / Leo Tolstoy
- Big Volodya and Little Volodya / Anton Chekhov
- Huan, or Dispersion / Carol Bergé.
- The mother. I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen
- My mother's house. Where are the children? ; The savage ; Jealousy / Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- Letter and poem / Marina Tsvetaeva
- Kindness / Sylvia Plath.
- Scenes from family life. The starless air / Donald Windham.
- Women lost. Consorting with angels / Anne Sexton
- Adam Bede / George Eliot
- Little Dorrit / Charles Dickens
- Nightwood. Night watch / Djuna Barnes.
- The old maid. On the balcony / Patrick White.
- The old woman. Two women / Tibor Déry.
- The unattainable other. The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- The woman who lives inside the world / Michele Murray.
- Notes:
- "Poems, stories, and excerpts from novels."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-379).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Murray, Michele. House of good proportion: images of women in literature.
- ISBN:
- 0671214713
- 9780671214715
- 0671214721
- 9780671214722
- OCLC:
- 622120
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