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Between the sheets : the literary liaisons of nine 20th-century women writers

Between the sheets : the literary liaisons of nine 20th-century women writers

McDowell, Lesley.
Book 2010

Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda Doolittle want to marry Ezra Pound when she was attracted to women? Why did Simone DeBeauvoir pimp for Jean-Paul Sartre? The list of the damages done in each of these sexual relationships between female writers and their male literary partners is long, but each relationship provokes the same question: would these women have become the writer...

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Women and literature History 20th century
Women authors 20th century Biography
Women authors 20th century Relations with men
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ISBN:
9781590202388
9780715639092
1590202384
0715639099
Edition:
First edition
Description:
365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
The "companion" : Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry
The "novice" : H.D. and Ezra Pound
The "mother" : Rebecca West and H.G. Wells
The "ingénue : Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford
The "mistress" : Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller
The "long-termer" : Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
The "survivor" : Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway
The "chaser" : Elizabeth Smart and George Barker
The "wife" : Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Control Number:
689528
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