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American Voices American Women
A collection of fiction exploring life on the prairie, in cities, and New England villages - and the varied, individualistic women who lived it.
432 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1973
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August 25, 2010
Not everyone knows these facts about four of the authors who have short stories in the book.
Elizabeth S. Phelps urged women to burn their corsets.
Susan Glaspell was awarded Pulitzer Prize for her play "Allison's House."
Jessie R. Fauset was called "mid-wife" of African American lit.
Dorothy C. Fisher brought Montessori Method to America.
There's a sweet, tiny, little, square, yellow house at the end of our street. That is where the little old lady of our neighborhood lives. She has lots of crocuses growing in her garden. Every spring she shares the
flowers with us at Easter time. She's also very snoopy and always tells my kids what they shouldn't be doing.
When I was growing up I never actually saw the little old lady of our neighborhood because she sounded scary to me. Everyone said she lived with 100 cats and when she fed them she set the opened cat food can on the floor and never, ever picked up the used can again. The idea of the awful smell scared me most of all.
Now that I'm grown up I imagine that I'm the little old lady in the neighborhood. The one, who never got married, never gave birth to children and the one who has the cleanest, shiniest house in the whole town, let alone the whole neighborhood!
I met such a lady in the short story by Mary Wilkins Freeman called the "New England Nun." Her name is Louisa. She sews with tiny neat hand stitches. She prepares her tea very carefully every day and pours it from a beautifully set tray with a nice little cake or two. And her house is clean, even cleaner than the houses in commercials and movies.
Listen and see if this doesn't sound like heaven to you, too.
"She (Louisa) had throbs of genuine triumph at the sight of the windowpanes which she had polished until they shone like jewels. She gloated gently over her orderly bureau drawers, with their exquisitely folded contents redolent with lavender and sweet clover . . ."
Ah, smells so good.
I like lots of the stories in the anthology of short stories called "American Voices, American Women."
Another story is titled "Lilacs" by Kate Chopin. I can smell lilacs all the while I'm reading the story.
I've noticed that when I read the stories, all written by women, I imagine using all five of my senses. Not something I had ever noticed so much in short stories by men. Review including photos is continued at the following link . http://www.associatedcontent.com/arti...
Elizabeth S. Phelps urged women to burn their corsets.
Susan Glaspell was awarded Pulitzer Prize for her play "Allison's House."
Jessie R. Fauset was called "mid-wife" of African American lit.
Dorothy C. Fisher brought Montessori Method to America.
There's a sweet, tiny, little, square, yellow house at the end of our street. That is where the little old lady of our neighborhood lives. She has lots of crocuses growing in her garden. Every spring she shares the
flowers with us at Easter time. She's also very snoopy and always tells my kids what they shouldn't be doing.
When I was growing up I never actually saw the little old lady of our neighborhood because she sounded scary to me. Everyone said she lived with 100 cats and when she fed them she set the opened cat food can on the floor and never, ever picked up the used can again. The idea of the awful smell scared me most of all.
Now that I'm grown up I imagine that I'm the little old lady in the neighborhood. The one, who never got married, never gave birth to children and the one who has the cleanest, shiniest house in the whole town, let alone the whole neighborhood!
I met such a lady in the short story by Mary Wilkins Freeman called the "New England Nun." Her name is Louisa. She sews with tiny neat hand stitches. She prepares her tea very carefully every day and pours it from a beautifully set tray with a nice little cake or two. And her house is clean, even cleaner than the houses in commercials and movies.
Listen and see if this doesn't sound like heaven to you, too.
"She (Louisa) had throbs of genuine triumph at the sight of the windowpanes which she had polished until they shone like jewels. She gloated gently over her orderly bureau drawers, with their exquisitely folded contents redolent with lavender and sweet clover . . ."
Ah, smells so good.
I like lots of the stories in the anthology of short stories called "American Voices, American Women."
Another story is titled "Lilacs" by Kate Chopin. I can smell lilacs all the while I'm reading the story.
I've noticed that when I read the stories, all written by women, I imagine using all five of my senses. Not something I had ever noticed so much in short stories by men. Review including photos is continued at the following link . http://www.associatedcontent.com/arti...
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