num_pages: 247
description: In 13 superb essays that first appeared in Vogue and The New Yorker, Kennedy Fraser explores the uniquely female voice and presence in literature and art. Interspersing vignettes from her own life with history and anecdotes surrounding such notable literary personages as Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton, Fraser provides a personal, informative, brilliant, and compassionate book.
language: English
title: Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives
titlecomplete: Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives
genres: Literature, Classics, Feminism, Womens, Biography, Collections, Education, Essays, Feminist Theory, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 346
publisher: Knopf