Foreground silences, 10, 16, 21, 37–39, 150–151
Fullness of time, 13, 33, 163–165
Galaxy, 95
Girlhood, leeching of capacity, 27–30, 194–198
Governments, silencing by, 9, 143–144
Grants, 168, 171
Group, The (McCarthy), 250
Guggenheim Fellowship for Diction, Drama and Poetry, 189
Haunted Manor House (Davis), 94
Hidden blight, 228–247
Hidden silences, 8–9, 21, 38n, 138–140, 145
Hide and Seek (West), 153
Homely underpinning, 12, 154–155
Hours of Isis, The (Eaton), 236
House of All Nations (Stead), 243
Idyll of Work (Larcom), 286
“Ignoble Martyr” (Davis), 112
“Immolated” (Melville), 134
“In the Grey Cabins of New England” (Davis), 112
“Is It All for Nothing?” (Davis), 112
Ishi (Kroeber), 42
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë), 60–61, 234
Jennie Gerhardt (Dreiser), 9
Jewish Woman in America, The (Michel, Hyman and Baum), 183
John Andross (Davis), 57n, 108
“John Lamar” (Davis), 72–73
Joseph Conrad on Fiction, 153
Journal (Mansfield), 153
Journals (Gide), 153
Journals (Thoreau), 153
Jubilee (Walker), 37, 209
Jude the Obscure (Hardy), 6, 122, 124, 263
Jury of Her Peers (Glaspell), 40
Käthe Kollwitz, Life in Art, 210n, 211n, 212n
Knock Upon Silence (Kizer), 41n
Ladder of the World’s Joy (Appleton), 195n
Language, 239–241
Law Unto Herself, A (Davis), 57n, 108–109
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 150–151
“Letter from Auschwitz,” 155
Letters (Mansfield), 153
Letters Home (Plath), 30n
Letters of Emily Dickinson, 117
Letters of Joseph Conrad, 156–157
Letters of Malcolm Lowry, The 153
Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett (ed. Fields), 38n
Letters to Milena (Kafka), 153
Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe, The (Fields), 77n
Life As We Have Known It, Memoirs of the Working Women’s Guild (Woolf), 45
Life expectancy, 23, 25n
Life in the Iron Mills; or The Korl Woman (Davis), 11, 48–50, 59, 60, 62, 64–67, 103, 112–114, 115n, 117, 118, 265–283
Life of Charlotte Brontë (Gaskell), 203
Life of Thomas Hardy, The, 123n
Literacy, 23–24, 184–185
Literary atmosphere, 171–176
Literary climate, 41, 233–241
Literary situation, 166–176
Literary Women (Moers), 193
Literature, value of journals, personal accounts, 45n
Literature courses, 28, 30, 180, 186
Little Disturbances of Man, The (Paley), 44
Lives that never came to writing, 10–11, 146, 151
Lowell Offering, 284, 285
MacDowell Colony, 167
Madness. See Breakdown
Malte Laurids Brigge (Rilke), 153
Man to Man (Schreiner), 151n
Man Who Loved Children, The (Stead), 243
Maps and Windows (Cooper), 197n, 198n, 201, 250n
Marginal, silences of the, 9, 146
Margret Howth: A Story of Today (Davis), 11, 54, 57n, 58, 60, 62–63, 65, 67–73
Maurice (Forster), 143
Mayor of Casterbridge (Hardy), 123
Memories of a Hostess (Howe), 77n
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, 65n
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, 27n
Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf), 213
My Antonia (Cather), 83n
“My First Novels, There Were Two” (Cather), 138n, 139n
My Heart Laid Bare (Baudelaire), 150, 287–289
Nation, 99, 108–109
National Book Awards, 174n, 189
Negro Novel in America, The (Bone), 9n, 146n
“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), 77n
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), 211n
“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), 65n
Paris Review, 188
Part of the Solution (Randall), 144n
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, 38n
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), 226n
“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), 155n
Room of One’s Own, A (Woolf), 11, 16, 151n, 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), 7n
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, 38n, 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), 115n
Silhouettes of American Life (Davis), 111
Singing Shepherd and Other Poems, The (Fields), 77n
Single women, 16, 233–234
Sister Carrie (Dreiser), 9
Small Changes (Piercy), 35n
“Snows of Kilimanjaro, The” (Hemingway), 9–10
“Sociology of Authorship” (Altick), 24n
“Song for Occupations, A” (Whitman), 65n
“Song of Joys” (Whitman), 65n
Story of an African Farm (Schreiner), 53n, 228
Story of Avis, The (E. Stuart Lyon Phelps), 90n, 115n, 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), 65n
Tell Me a Riddle (Olsen), 38
Telling the truth about one’s body, 252n, 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), 40n
This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Borowski), 155
“Thou art indeed just, Lord” (Hopkins), 133
“Thousand Springs, The” (Hughes), 90n
Three Guineas (Woolf), 244, 257
Through the Looking Glass (Carroll), 239n
“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, 139n
“Twelfth of January, The” (E. Stuart Lyon Phelps), 115n
Twentieth Century Authors (ed. Kunitz), 231n
Twentieth Century Authors: World Authors (1950–1970), 188
200 Contemporary Authors, 188
Ultima Thule (H.H. Richardson), 19, 35n, 40
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 61, 206
Unconfined solitude, 12, 154
“Under the Old Code” (Davis), 112
Under the Olive (Fields), 77n
“Undistinguished Americans” (Davis), 112
“Unwritten History” (Davis), 112
Unwritten War, The, American Writers and the Civil War (Aaron), 98n
Valentine Offering, 285
Villette (Charlotte Brontë), 233
Virulent destroyers, 10, 148–150
Voices (Griffin), 181n
Waiting for the Verdict (Davis), 95–99
Waves, The (Woolf), 159–161, 201
Way It Is Now, The (Bingham), 210
Weeds (Kelley), 9n, 35n
What the Woman Lived (Bogan), 145, 221
“Wife’s Story, The” (Davis), 89–93, 102n, 103, 111, 207
Willa Cather: A Memoir (Sargeant), 139n
Wives of writers, 218–222
Woman as Writer, The (Atwood), 230–231
Woman Within, The (Glasgow), 184–185
Women and Labour (Schreiner), 26n
“Women and the Literary Curriculum” (Showalter), 28
“Women in Fiction—and in Fact,” 179–183
Women in the Nineteenth Century (Fuller), 87n
Women’s Declaration of Rights, 54–55, 108
Women’s Rights movement, 23, 43, 54, 60, 179–183
Woodlanders, The (Hardy), 123
Working Class Movement in America, The (Marx and Aveling), 112
World sensibility, 42
Writer-mothers. See Motherhood
Writer’s Diary, A (Woolf), 17, 153, 159–161, 235
“Writing like a man,” 248–251
“Writing like a woman,” 252–253
“Yonnondio” (Whitman), 114n
Yonnondio: From the Thirties (Olsen), 194n
NAME INDEX
Aaron, Daniel, 98n
Abernathy, Ralph, 39n
Alcott, Bronson, 78–79
Alcott, Louisa May, 16, 30n, 77
Alta, 32n, 209
Altick, Richard, 24n
Alvarez, A., 241
Anderson, Margaret, 219
Anderson, Sherwood, 10, 153, 165
Anthony, Susan B., 108
Appleton, Sarah, 195n
Arata, 146
Arnold, June, 32n
Arnold, Matthew, 27n
Arnow, Harriette, 32n, 35n, 36n, 40, 42, 44, 249n
Artaud, Antonin, 149
Ashton-Warner, Sylvia, 32n, 42
Atwood, Margaret, 230–231, 250
Auden, W. H., 238–239
Austen, Jane, 8, 16, 23, 30n, 140, 227; Persuasion, 181–182, 235
Austin, Mary, 40, 227
Aveling, Edward, 112
Babel, Isaac, 9, 165
Bagley, Sarah, 285–286
Baker, Ida, 215
Balzac, Honoré de, 12, 18, 33n, 143, 154
Barnes, Djuna, 31
Barriault, Gina, 32n
Baudelaire, Charles Pierre, 149; My Heart Laid Bare, 150, 287–289
Baum, Charlotte, 183
Beach, Sylvia, 219
Beecher, Henry Ward, 81
Behn, Aphra, 23, 42
Bell, Currer. See Brontë, Charlotte
Bellow, Saul, 147
Berryman, John, 31n, 149
Betts, Doris, 32n
Bingham, Sallie, 32n, 210
Biology, 25–26, 42–43
Birstein, Ann, 219
Blake, William, 8, 29n, 38, 139, 168–169, 177, 181n
Bogan, Louise, 145, 153, 221, 227
Bone, Robert, 9n, 146
Booth, Edwin, 108
Borges, Jorge Luis, 219n, 220
Borghese, Elizabeth Mann, 31
Borowski, Tadeusz, 155
Bowen, Elizabeth, 16, 31, 40, 227
Bowles, Jane, 219
Bowles, Paul, 219n
Boyle, Kay, 16, 32n, 40, 227
Bridges, Robert, 128–133
Brontë, Charlotte, 16, 30n, 41, 56n, 227, 228; appearance, 233–234; Jane Eyre, 60–61, 234
Brontë, Emily, 16, 30n, 227, 247
Brooks, Van Wyck, 80
Brown, Rosellen, 32n, 232
Browne, Sir Thomas, 231
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 16, 27n, 42, 56n, 115, 227, 251n
Buck, Pearl, 16, 32n
Budge, Sir Wallis, 236–237
Bunyan, John, 52
Burney, Fanny, 23
Bynner, Witter, 137
Cahill, Susan, 32n
Calisher, Hortense, 10n, 32n, 37, 41–42, 231
Camus, Albert, 44, 45, 153, 184, 264
Carroll, Lewis, 239n
Carson, Rachel, 42
Cary, Joyce, 10
Castillo, Otto-René, 9, 143–144
Cather, Willa, 9, 16, 31, 35n, 37, 40, 77n, 199, 227, 240; My Antonia, 83n; O Pioneers!, 139; The Troll Garden, 137–138, 139n
Chekhov, Anton, 13, 153, 169–170, 263, 264
Cheever, John, 147
Chopin, Kate, 10n, 16n, 17n, 40, 227
Clark, Eleanor, 32n, 219
Cleveland, Grover, 108
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 149
Colette, 16, 33n, 38n, 195–196, 227
Collins, Martha, 83n
Colter, Cyrus, 10n
Compton-Burnett, Ivy, 17n, 31, 249
Conrad, Joseph, 10, 12, 34, 163, 173
Cooper, Jane, 197n, 198n, 201, 250n
Coppard, A. E., 10
Cowley, Malcolm, 167n
Crane, Hart, 165
Dana, Richard Henry, 60n
Davis, Charles Belmont, 95, 100, 101, 117
Davis, Hope Hale, 32n, 219
Davis, L. Clarke, 67, 74, 81–82, 85–88, 89n, 94, 95, 100, 101, 103, 107, 108, 113n
Davis, Nora, 104
Davis, Rebecca Harding, 35, 42, 47–118, 148, 205, 207n; appearance, 55, 74, 109; Bits of Gossip, 54n, 73n, 78, 86n, 98n; “Blind Tom,” 82–83; Boston visit, 75–77; breakdown, 87–88, 90; children of, 94, 95, 101, 104, 109–110; civil war and, 66–74, 82n; Concord visit, 78–81; David Gaunt, 75, 93; death, 112; Earthern Pitchers, 51n, 104–107, 109, 111; education, 52–54; family background, 52, 55–57; finances, 75; Hawthorne and, 78–81; John Andross, 57n, 108; “John Lamar,” 72–73; A Law Unto Herself, 57n, 108–109; Life in the Iron Mills, 11, 48–50, 59, 60, 62, 64–67, 103, 112–114, 115n, 117, 118, 265–283; Margret Howth, 11, 54, 57n, 58, 60, 62–63, 65, 67–73; marriage, 81–82, 84–85; reviews of work, 99–100, 108–109; Silhouettes of American Life, 111; Waiting for the Verdict, 95–99; “The Wife’s Story,” 89–93, 102n, 103, 111, 207
Davis, Richard Harding, 55, 94, 100, 101, 109–110, 113n
Davis, Robert Gorham, 219n
De Beauvoir, Simone, 242
De Ford, Miriam Allen, 175
De Quincey, Thomas, 214
Dermout, Maria, 10
Dickens, Charles, 142–143, 284
Dickinson, Emily, 13, 16, 17, 21, 35n, 56n, 59n, 64n, 225, 227, 244–247; parallel between Hopkins and, 128n
Didion, Joan, 32n
Dinesen, Isak, 10, 16, 17n, 31
Dixon, Richard Watson, 128–130, 132–133
Doctorow, E. L., 147
Dostoyevsky, Fëdor, 9
Douglass, Frederick, 184
Dreiser, Theodore, 8, 9, 142, 184
Drexler, Rosalyn, 232
Drummond, William, 178
DuBois, W. E. B., 32–33, 203n, 263
Duras, Marguerite, 210–211
Eaton, Evelyn, 32n, 236–237
Edgeworth, Maria, 52
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans), 10, 16, 17n, 23, 28, 30n, 56n, 196, 218, 227, 249
Eliot, T. S., 219n
Ellmann, Mary, 28, 40n, 219
Ellmann, Richard, 219n
Emerson, Aunt Mary Moody, 17
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 10, 60n, 63, 66, 78–79, 115, 150–151, 158
Erikson, Erik, 28
Evans, Mary Ann. See Eliot, George