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Silences

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by Shelly Fisher Fishkin


  Faulkner, William, 184, 231

  Ferguson, Mary Ann, 180n

  Fern, Fanny (Sara Willis Parton), 61

  Fields, Annie, 38n, 67, 74–77, 84–89, 107, 108

  Fields, James T., 64, 66, 71, 75, 83, 84

  Fields, Kate, 109

  Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 16, 18, 32n, 90n, 227

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 10, 147, 153

  Flaubert, Gustave, 11–12, 143, 153

  Foley, Martha, 219

  Forster, E. M., 143, 226n

  Frame, Janet, 31

  Frémont, Jessie Benton, 74

  Frémont, John Charles, 74

  Fuller, Margaret, 74, 84, 87, 225

  Gardner, John, 221–222

  Gaskell, Elizabeth, 10n, 16, 17n, 30n, 42, 203, 227

  Gibson, Charles Dana, 110n

  Gide, André, 11, 33n, 153–154, 158, 173

  Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 42, 217, 227

  Ginsberg, Allen, 219n

  Glasgow, Ellen, 16, 31, 38n, 40, 184–185, 199–200, 227

  Glaspell, Susan, 31, 40, 227

  Godwin, Gail, 148n

  Goncourt, Edmond, 171

  Goncourt, Jules, 171

  Gordimer, Nadine, 32n, 42

  Gordon, Caroline, 32n, 219

  Grau, Shirley Ann, 32n

  Greeley, Horace, 54

  Green, Hannah, 31

  Greenberg, Joanne, 32n

  Greenwood, Grace, 61

  Gregory, Lady, 17n

  Griffin, Susan, 32n, 181n

  Gutierrez, Carlos Maria, 144

  Hale, Nancy, 32n

  Hamilton, Gail, 61

  Hansberry, Lorraine, 31, 42

  Harding, Dick, 67

  Harding, Mr. Richard W., 52, 56, 74, 86, 88–89, 94

  Harding, Mrs. Rachel Leet Wilson, 52, 89, 94

  Harding, Rebecca. See Davis, Rebecca

  Harding Harding, Wilson, 59, 75

  Hardwick, Elizabeth, 36, 219, 251

  Hardy, Florence Emily, 123n

  Hardy, Thomas, 9; Jude the Obscure, 6, 122, 124, 263; Tess of the d’Urbervilles, 122, 123–124, 126; thirty-year prose silence, 6–7, 122–126

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 52, 60n, 65n, 66, 78–81, 154

  Hawthorne, Sophia, 79–80

  Heap, Jane, 219

  Heilbrun, Carolyn, 254n

  Hellman, Lillian, 16, 31, 42

  Hemingway, Ernest, 9–10, 110n, 147, 171, 231

  Heraud, Javier, 143–144

  Herbert, George, 142

  Herbst, Josephine, 31

  Hersey, John, 147

  Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 64n, 128n

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 63, 76, 109

  Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 6, 172; fame and, 128–129; parallel between Dickinson and, 128n; religious vow, 7, 127, 129; seven-year silence, 7, 127–133

  Howard, Maureen, 32n

  Howard, Richard, 37n

  Howe, Florence, 118

  Howe, Mark de Wolfe, 77n

  Hoyer, Linda, 37

  Hughes, Mary Gray, 32n, 90n

  Hughes, Ted, 241

  Hurston, Zora Neale, 31, 44, 227

  Hyman, Paula, 183

  Irons, Ralph. See Schreiner, Olive

  Irving, Sir Henry, 108

  Jackson, Helen Hunt, 16, 17n, 42, 109

  Jackson, Shirley, 32n

  James, Alice, 17

  James, Henry, 11, 12, 20, 33n, 62, 137–138, 147, 153, 157, 162, 173, 214–215

  Jameson, Storm, 32n

  Jefferson, Joseph, 108

  Jewett, Sarah Orne, 16, 37–38, 77n, 139, 227

  Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 32n

  Johnson, Diane, 32n

  Johnson, Josephine, 32n

  Johnson, Samuel, 228

  Joyce, James, 33n

  Kafka, Franz, 9, 14–15, 153, 173

  Kazin, Alfred, 187, 219n

  Keats, John, 6

  Kelley, Edith Summers, 9n, 35n

  Kizer, Carolyn, 41n

  Klein, Viola, 27n

  Kollwitz, Käthe, 210n, 211–212

  Kroeber, Theodora, 37, 42

  Kumin, Maxine, 32n, 37

  Kunitz, Stanley, 231n

  Lagerlof, Selma, 16

  Langford, Gerald, 117

  Language, 239–241

  Larcom, Lucy, 286

  Laurence, Margaret, 32n

  Lauter, Paul, 118

  Lavin, Mary, 32n

  Lawrence, D. H., 153

  Lazarre, Jane, 211

  Le Guin, Ursula, 32n

  LeMoyne, Francis, 54, 56, 61, 65, 69

  Leonard, John, 167

  Leopardi, Giacomo, 171

  Lessing, Doris, 32n, 35n, 38n, 42, 43–44, 45n

  LeSueur, Meridel, 32n

  Levertov, Denise, 240

  Levy, Amy, 227

  Lewes, George, 248

  Lewis, Janet, 32n, 37, 40, 219

  Lispector, Clarice, 32n

  Lord, Audre, 174n

  Lowell, James Russell, 60n, 63, 219n

  Lowry, Malcolm, 153

  Lurie, Alison, 32n

  Lynes, Russell, 168n

  McCarthy, Mary, 32n, 250

  McCullers, Carson, 31, 187

  Mailer, Norman, 29, 238

  Malamud, Bernard, 147

  Mallet-Joris, François, 32n

  Mann, Katia, 218

  Mann, Thomas, 12–13, 218

  Mansfield, Katherine, 11, 16–18, 31, 40, 41, 148n, 153, 215, 227

  Martineau, Harriet, 23, 42, 234

  Marx, Eleanor, 112

  Melville, Herman, 3, 6, 60n, 152, 155–156, 196n, 231; letter to Hawthorne, 7–8; Moby Dick, 7, 65n; Pierre, 8, 153, 220; thirty-year prose silence, 7–8, 134–136

  Mew, Charlotte, 16, 227

  Michel, Sonya, 183

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 38n, 227

  Millett, Kate, 28, 179

  Milton, John, 27n

  Mirrielees, Edith, 219

  Mistral, Gabriela, 16, 42, 227

  Moers, Ellen, 193

  Monroe, Harriet, 219

  Moore, Marianne, 16

  Mortimer, Penelope, 32n

  Motjabai, A. G., 249

  Mott, Lucretia, 86

  Mullens, Jean, 28n

  Munro, Alice, 32n

  Murdoch, Iris, 31

  Murray, Pauli, 32n

  Murry, John Middleton, 17

  Myers, 146

  Nabokov, Vladimir, 147

  Newman, Charles, 37n

  Nin, Anaïs, 30, 31, 43, 227

  Norton, Charles Eliot, 114

  Oates, Joyce Carol, 31, 38n, 147

  O’Brien, Edna, 32n

  O’Connor, Flannery, 31, 187

  Orwell, George, 155n

  Oxlie, Mary, 178

  Ozick, Cynthia, 32n, 40, 251

  Painter, Charlotte, 32n

  Paley, Grace, 32n, 44

  Parker, Dorothy, 16, 31, 40, 227

  Parton, Sara Willis (Fanny Fern), 61

  Patmore, Coventry, 131

  Pattee, Fred, 60n

  Pavese, Cesare, 153

  Peabody, Elizabeth, 79–80

  Petry, Ann, 32n, 37, 40

  Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 206–207

  Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart Lyon, 90n, 115n, 206–208

  Piercy, Marge, 35n

  Plath, Sylvia, 30, 187, 241; suicide, 35, 36, 227

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 3

  Porter, Katherine Anne, 9, 13, 16, 31, 40, 41, 165, 166, 175–176, 200, 216, 227

  Potter, Beatrix, 243

  Powell, Dawn, 32n

  Proust, Marcel, 114

  Randall, Margaret, 144n

  Reed, John, 110n

  Renard, Jules, 171

  Rhys, Jean, 32n, 40, 227

  Rich, Adrienne, 174n, 181n, 195n, 211, 226n

  Richardson, Dorothy, 10, 16, 31, 37, 40, 227, 235–236

  Richardson, Henry Handel, 16, 19, 31, 35n, 40, 200, 227, 249

  Richardson, Samuel, 27n

  Rilke, Rainer Maria, 12, 15–16, 34, 153, 157, 162–165

  Rimb
aud, Arthur, 6, 7, 149

  Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 10, 16, 31, 35n, 40, 44, 227

  Robinson, Lillian, 144n, 180n

  Rosen, Norma, 32n

  Rossetti, Christina, 16

  Roth, Henry, 9n

  Roth, Philip, 183

  Rugama, Leonel, 144

  Rush, 146

  Sachs, Nelly, 42, 227

  Salinger, J. D., 147

  Sand, George, 16, 42, 227, 249, 251

  Sandel, Cora, 10n, 90n

  Sargeant, Elizabeth, 139n

  Sarton, May, 31, 221

  Schaeffer, Helen Woodward, 117

  Schissel, Lilian, 179n

  Schmidt, Dolores, 28–29

  Schreiner, Olive (Ralph Irons), 3, 8, 16, 26n, 42, 53, 151n, 226, 227, 228, 249

  Scott, Sir Walter, 52

  Segal, Lore, 32n

  Seghers, Anna, 42

  Sexton, Anne, 226n, 227n

  Shakespeare, William, 231

  Shange, Ntozake, 242n

  Showalter, Elaine, 28, 29, 180n, 231–232

  Slesinger, Tess, 32n

  Smedley, Agnes, 35n, 40, 42, 44–45, 227, 264

  Smith, George, 234

  Smith, Lillian, 31

  Sontag, Susan, 187, 232

  Spark, Muriel, 32n

  Stafford, Jean, 31

  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 27n, 53n, 108

  Starkie, Enid, 150n

  Stead, Christina, 31, 35n, 40, 227, 243

  Stein, 243n

  Stein, Gertrude, 16, 31, 40, 218, 227

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 142

  Stone, Lucy, 60n

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 16, 30n, 42, 59, 61, 63, 99n, 203–206, 227

  Suckow, Ruth, 35n

  Sumner, Cid Ricketts, 37

  Tanner, Tony, 187

  Tarkington, Booth, 110n

  Tate, Allen, 219n

  Teasdale, Sara, 227

  Terry, Ellen, 108

  Thackeray, William, 143, 233

  Thoreau, Henry David, 60n, 63, 153

  Toklas, Alice B., 218

  Tolstoy, Leo, 33n, 171

  Toomer, Jean, 9n

  Trilling, Diana, 25, 219

  Trilling, Lionel, 219n

  Trollope, Anthony, 33n

  Trollope, Frances, 36n

  Truth, Sojourner, 184

  Tsetsaeyva, Anna (Marina Cvetaeva), 145

  Tubman, Harriet, 184

  Tumin, 243n

  Turgenev, Ivan, 33n

  Twain, Mark, 143

  Undset, Sigrid, 16

  Updike, John, 147, 219n

  Valéry, Paul, 12, 13–14, 158, 163

  Van Gogh, Vincent, 153, 158, 163, 169, 225

  Voynich, Ethel, 42

  Walker, Alice, 32n, 172n

  Walker, Margaret, 32n, 37, 209

  Wallant, Edwin Louis, 166

  Warren, Robert Penn, 147, 219n

  Washington, Booker T., 112

  Welty, Eudora, 16, 31

  Wertenbaker, Lael, 32n

  West, Jessamyn, 31, 153, 227

  West, Nathaniel, 237–238

  West, Rebecca, 227

  Wharton, Edith, 16, 31, 38n, 40, 227

  Whitman, Walt, 10, 60n, 65n, 114n; Democratic Vistas, 182–183; Leaves of Grass, 150–151

  Whittier, John Greenleaf, 60n, 63, 286

  Wilde, Oscar, 9, 148

  Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 10

  Wilder, Thornton, 147

  Willard, Nancy, 32n

  Williams, William Carlos, 13, 221

  Williams, Mrs. William Carlos, 221

  Wilson, Angus, 10

  Wilson, Edmund, 220–221

  Winters, Yvor, 219n

  Wiseman, Adele, 32n

  Wolfe, Thomas, 12

  Wollstonecraft, Mary, 43

  Woolf, Virginia, 3, 23, 27n, 29, 31, 40, 42, 115, 126, 165, 173, 207n, 227, 228, 252n, 256, 264; angel in the house, 34, 213–214, 254; childlessness of, 200–201; on family life, 33–34; on madness, 226; Mrs. Dalloway, 213; Professions for Women, 34, 213; reading to Memoir Club, 243n; A Room of One’s Own, 11, 16, 151n, 228, 244; self-censorship, 142–143; Three Guineas, 244, 257; To the Lighthouse, 160, 161, 213, 235; The Waves, 159–161, 201; A Writer’s Diary, 17, 153, 159–161, 235

  Wordsworth, Dorothy, 17, 214

  Wright, Sarah, 35n

  Yeats, William Butler, 33n, 215

  Yglesias, Helen, 32n, 219

  Yglesias, José, 219n

  Young, Marguerite, 37

  Zola, Émile, 33n, 113

 

 

 


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