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Authors: Shelly Fisher Fishkin

Silences (61 page)

Man Who Loved Children, The
(Stead),
243

Maps and Windows
(Cooper),
197
n
,
198
n
,
201
,
250
n

Marginal, silences of the,
9
,
146

Margret Howth: A Story of Today
(Davis),
11
,
54
,
57
n
,
58
,
60
,
62–63
,
65
,
67–73

Maurice
(Forster),
143

Mayor of Casterbridge
(Hardy),
123

Memories of a Hostess
(Howe),
77
n

Mill on the Floss
(Eliot),
28

Mind Among the Spindles
,
284

Miss Lonelyhearts
(West),
237–238

Miss Macintosh My Darling
(Young),
37

Moby Dick
(Melville),
7
,
65
n

Modern American Literature: A Library of Literary Criticism
,
187

Momma: A Start on All the Untold Stories
(Alta),
209

Moral Tales
(Hawthorne),
52

Mother Knot, The
(Lazarre),
211

Motherhood,
16
,
18–19
,
32–33
,
35–36
,
42
,
200–212
,
254
,
262

Mothers of writers,
220

Mountain Wolf Woman,
27
n

Mrs. Dalloway
(Woolf),
213

My Antonia
(Cather),
83
n

“My First Novels, There Were Two” (Cather),
138
n
,
139
n

My Heart Laid Bare
(Baudelaire),
150
,
287–289

Nation
,
99
,
108–109

National Book Awards,
174
n
,
189

Negro Novel in America, The
(Bone),
9
n
,
146
n

New England Girlhood, A
(Larcom),
286

“New Traits of the New American” (Davis),
112

New York Review of Books
,
172

New York Times, The
,
112

New York Times Book Review
,
172

“No Important Woman Writer” (Calisher),
231

Nobel Prize for Literature,
189

Not Under Forty
(Cather),
77
n

Notebooks (Actuelles)
(Camus),
153

Notebooks
(Chekhov),
153

Notebooks
(James),
153
,
162
,
214–215

O. Henry Awards,
189

O Pioneers!
(Cather),
139

Of Woman Born
(Rich),
211
n

“On Woman” (Yeats),
215

One-book silences,
9
,
37

Orlando
(Woolf),
160

Oroonoko
(Behn),
42

Osiris
(Budge),
236

P.E.N.,
167
,
190

“Paradise of Bachelors” (Melville),
65
n

Paris Review
,
188

Part of the Solution
(Randall),
144
n

Part-time writing,
13–15
,
166
,
264

Patriarchal attitudes,
31–32
,
199
,
202
,
233–234
,
241
,
250

“Paul Blecker” (Davis),
85

“Paul’s Case”
(Cather),
137

Pen names,
248–249

Perpetual dancing dog phenomena,
40
,
228–229

Persuasion
(Austen),
181–182
,
235

Peterson’s
,
67
,
68
,
71
,
75
,
81
,
83
,
87
,
94

Pierre
(Melville),
8
,
153
,
220

Pilgrimage
(Dorothy Richardson),
235–236

Poet and Fiction Writer Directories
(CODA),
167
,
168
,
186
,
188
,
190
,
191

“Poet in the World, The” (Levertov),
240

Poets at Work
(Auden),
238–239

Poets & Writers
Newsletter
,
167
,
175

Political silences,
9
,
143–145

Portnoy’s Complaint
(Roth),
183

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
, (Joyce),
28

Pro Aris et Focis (For Altar and Hearth)
(Davis),
102

Productivity,
24
,
34
,
38
n

Professions for Women
(Woolf),
34
,
213

Proportion of women writers to men writers,
24–25
,
186–193

Publishers’ censorship,
9
,
143

Pulitzer prizes,
189

Put Out of the Way
(Davis),
108

Reading the Dostoyevsky
Notebooks for the Idiot
, or
Notebooks for Crime and Punishment
,
153

Rebecca Harding Davis, Pioneer Realist
(Schaeffer),
117

Recollections of Virginia Woolf
(Forster),
226
n

“Recovery of Family Life” (Davis),
112

Religion,
26

Restriction,
41
,
242–247

Reviews,
99–100
,
108–109
,
230–231

Richard Harding Davis Years, The
(Langford),
117

Road to Wigan Pier, The
(Orwell),
155
n

Room of One’s Own, A
(Woolf),
11
,
16
,
151
n
,
228
,
244

Ruth Hall
(Parton),
61

Sacrifice of talent,
10
,
147

“St. Winefred’s Well” (Hopkins),
131
,
132

Scribner’s Monthly
,
104

Season in Hell, A
(Rimbaud),
7
n

Second Life, The
(Davis),
83

Second Sex, The
(De Beauvoir),
242

Self, totality of,
13
,
17
,
163–165

Self-censorship,
9
,
142–143

Servants,
16
,
17

Sexist attitudes.
See
Critical attitudes toward women

Sexual bias in reviewing,
230–231

Sexual liberation,
255

Sexual Politics
(Millett),
179

Sexuality,
23
,
254–255

Ship of Fools
(Porter),
13

Signs
(Showalter),
231–232

Silences: absences as kind of,
147–148
; censorship,
6
,
9
,
44
,
122
,
142–143
; foreground,
10
,
16
,
21
,
37–39
,
150–151
; government and,
9
,
143–144
; hidden,
8–9
,
21
,
38
n
,
138–140
,
145
; lives that never came to writing,
10–11
,
146
,
151
; of marginal,
9
,
146
; one-book,
9
,
37
; political,
9
,
143–145
; premature,
10
,
148–150
; publishers’ censorship,
9
,
143
; sacrifice of talent,
10
,
147
; self-censorship,
9
,
142–143
; work withheld,
143
.
See also
specific authors

Silent Partner
(E. Stuart Lyon Phelps),
115
n

Silhouettes of American Life
(Davis),
111

Singing Shepherd and Other Poems, The
(Fields),
77
n

Single women,
16
,
233–234

Sister
Carrie
(Dreiser),
9

Small Changes
(Piercy),
35
n

“Snows of Kilimanjaro, The” (Hemingway),
9–10

“Sociology of Authorship” (Altick),
24
n

“Song for Occupations, A” (Whitman),
65
n

“Song of Joys” (Whitman),
65
n

Story of an African Farm
(Schreiner),
53
n
,
228

Story of Avis, The
(E. Stuart Lyon Phelps),
90
n
,
115
n
,
207–208

“Story of a Few Plain Women” (Davis),
112

Story of a Novel
(Wolfe),
12

Story of Today, A
(Davis).
See
Margret Howth: A Story of Today
(Davis)

Subterranean forces,
13–14
,
157–162

Suicide,
35
,
36
,
149
,
224
,
227

“Sylvia Plath: A Memoir” (Alvarez),
241

Tammy
(Sumner),
37

“Tantalus of Maids” (Melville),
65
n

Tell Me a Riddle
(Olsen),
38

Telling the truth about one’s body,
252
n
,
254–255

“Temple of Fame” (Davis),
112

Ten Thousand Things, The
(Dermout),
10

Tess of
the d’Urbervilles
(Hardy),
122
,
123–124
,
126

Thinking About Women
(Ellman),
40
n

This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
(Borowski),
155

“Thou art indeed just, Lord” (Hopkins),
133

“Thousand Springs, The” (Hughes),
90
n

Three Guineas
(Woolf),
244
,
257

Through the Looking Glass
(Carroll),
239
n

“Thy Aim, The Aim?” (Melville),
136

Time of Man
(Roberts),
40
,
44

To the Lighthouse
(Woolf),
160
,
161
,
213
,
235

“To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life” (Hopkins),
133

Totality of self,
13
,
17
,
163–165

Trees and Fields Went the Other Way, The
(Eaton),
236–237

Troll Garden, The
(Cather),
137–138
,
139
n

“Twelfth of January, The” (E. Stuart Lyon Phelps),
115
n

Twentieth Century Authors
(ed. Kunitz),
231
n

Twentieth Century Authors: World Authors (1950–1970)
,
188

200 Contemporary Authors
,
188

Ultima Thule
(H.H. Richardson),
19
,
35
n
,
40

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(Stowe),
61
,
206

Unconfined solitude,
12
,
154

“Under the Old Code” (Davis),
112

Under the Olive
(Fields),
77
n

“Undistinguished Americans” (Davis),
112

“Unwritten History” (Davis),
112

Unwritten War, The, American Writers and the Civil War
(Aaron),
98
n

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