Silences

Silences

Silences in literature

One out of twelve: writers who are women in our century

Rebecca Harding Davis

Acerbs, asides, amulets, exhumations, sources, deepenings, roundings, expansions

Silences in literature

II

Silences

its varieties

The work of creation and the circumstances it demands for full functioning

Subterranean forces

and the work of creation in circumstances enabling full function

When the claims of creation cannot be primary

The literary situation

The writer-woman: one out of twelve

II

Blight

its earliest expression

A sense of wrong voiced

Literacy

One out of twelve

the figures

The baby; the girl-child; the girl; the young writer-woman

The damnation of women

The angel in the house

Freeing the essential angel

Wives, mothers, enablers

Blight. The hidden silencer

breakdown

Hidden blight

professional circumstances

Hidden blight

some effects of having to counter and encounter harmful treatment and circumstances

Other obstacles, balks, encumbrances in coming to one's own voice, vision, circumference

Creativity; potentiality. First generation

Excerpts from Life in the iron mills

Miscellany

Excerpts from My heart laid bare.