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Academy of American Poets Awards,
189

Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
(Charles Belmont Davis),
117

Advertisements for Myself
(Mailer),
238

“After the Pleasure Party” (Melville),
196
n

Alberta
(Sandel),
90
n

Alcoholism,
149

Alexander’s Bridge
(Cather),
137

American Academy/National Institute of Arts & Letters Awards,
189

“American Aloe on Exhibition, The” (Melville),
135

American Notes
(Dickens),
284

Angel in the house situation,
34–37
,
42–43
,
207
,
213–217

“Angel Over the Right Shoulder, The” (E. Stuart Phelps),
207

“Anne” (Davis),
111

Appearance,
233–234

Ariel
(Plath),
36
n

Art of Sylvia Plath, The
(ed. Newman),
37
n

“Artist as Uneconomic Man, The” (Lynes),
168
n

Atlantic Monthly
,
49
,
63–65
,
67
,
72
,
75
,
83
,
87
,
89
,
94
,
112

Authors and Friends
(Fields),
77
n

“Babushka Farnham” (Fisher),
18
,
90
n

“Babysitters, The” (Plath),
194
n

Bell Jar, The
(Plath),
30

Billy Budd
(Melville),
8

Bits of Gossip
(Davis),
54
n
,
73
n
,
78
,
86
n
,
98
n

Black American Writers
,
146

“Black North, The” (Davis),
112

Black writers,
9
,
146
,
262

Blight,
38
,
178
,
224–227
; hidden,
228–247

“Blind Tom” (Davis),
82–83

Bollingen
Poetry Prize,
189

Book Review Index
,
189

Books in Print
,
190

Breakdown,
87–88
,
90
,
224–227

“Bridge, The” (Crane),
165

Bright Book of Life
(Kazin),
187

Burning Brand, The
(Pavese),
153

Call It Sleep
(Henry Roth),
9
n

“Camoëns” (Melville),
135

Cane
(Toomer),
9
n

Censorship,
6
,
9
,
44
,
122
,
142–143

Century of Dishonor, A
(Helen Hunt Jackson),
109

Chapters from a Life
(E. Stuart Lyon Phelps),
115
n
,
206

Childless women,
16
,
31
,
200–202

Children’s books,
37

City of Words—American Fiction 1950–1970
(Tanner),
187

Clarissa
(Samuel Richardson),
27
n

Class,
139
,
146
,
261–264

Collected Essays of Katherine Anne Porter, The
,
41
n

Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, The
,
244
n

Conscience,
42

Constriction,
41–43
,
248–255

Contemporary Literary Criticism; Cumulative Index to Authors
,
187

Contemporary Novel; A Checklist of Critical Literature in Britain and America Since 1945
,
187

Contemporary Novelists
,
188

Contemporary World Literature
,
187

Counterfeiters, The
(Gide),
154

“Country Girls in Town” (Davis),
112

Country of the Pointed Firs
(Jewett),
139

Course in Poetics
(Valéry),
12

Cousin Bette
(Balzac),
154

Crack-Up, The
(Fitzgerald),
147
,
153

Creativity,
9–21
,
152–158
,
261–264

Critical attitudes toward women,
30
,
31
,
40–41
,
99–100
,
109
,
171
,
230–253

“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (Whitman),
65
n

Curriculum,
28
,
39
,
180
,
186

“Curse of Education” (Davis),
112

Dallas Galbraith
(Davis),
100

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
(DuBois),
33
n

Daughter of Earth
(Smedley),
40
,
44–45

David Gaunt
(Davis),
75
,
93

De Profundis
(Wilde),
148

Dear Theo
(Van Gogh),
153

Declaration
of Women’s Rights,
54–55
,
108

Democratic Vistas
(Whitman),
182–183

Devaluation,
40
,
228–232

Devil’s Hand, The
(Kelley),
35
n

Diaries
(Kafka),
153

Diaries
(Nin),
43

Diario del Cuartelo
(Gutierrez),
144

Dictionary of American Biography
,
113

“Disease of Money-Getting, The” (Davis),
112

Dr. Zay
(E. Stuart Lyon Phelps),
115
n

Dollmaker, The
(Arnow),
40
,
44

Drug use,
149

Earthen Pitchers
(Davis),
57
n
,
104–107
,
109
,
111

Economics,
24
,
75
,
167–170

Education,
23
,
52–54
,
263
; curriculum,
28
,
30
,
180
,
186

“Ellen” (Davis),
75

Eminent Women of the Age
(Stanton),
53
n

“Eve” (Cooper),
197
n
,
198
n

“Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor-car” (Woolf),
217

Factory Girl, The
,
285

Fame,
128–129
,
171
,
172

Far From the Madding Crowd
(Hardy),
125

Female Labor Reform Association,
285

Femininity,
30

Feminist literary criticism,
181

First generation,
263–264

“Flee on Your Donkey” (Sexton),
226
n

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
,
38
n
,
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),
57
n
,
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
,
210
n
,
211
n
,
212
n

Knock Upon Silence
(Kizer),
41
n

Ladder of the World’s Joy
(Appleton),
195
n

Language,
239–241

Law Unto Herself, A
(Davis),
57
n
,
108–109

Leaves of Grass
(Whitman),
150–151

“Letter from Auschwitz,”
155

Letters
(Mansfield),
153

Letters Home
(Plath),
30
n

Letters of Emily Dickinson
,
117

Letters of Joseph Conrad
,
156–157

Letters of Malcolm Lowry, The
153

Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett
(ed. Fields),
38
n

Letters to Milena
(Kafka),
153

Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe, The
(Fields),
77
n

Life As We Have Known It, Memoirs of the Working Women’s Guild
(Woolf),
45

Life expectancy,
23
,
25
n

Life in the Iron Mills;
or
The Korl Woman
(Davis),
11
,
48–50
,
59
,
60
,
62
,
64–67
,
103
,
112–114
,
115
n
,
117
,
118
,
265–283

Life of Charlotte Brontë
(Gaskell),
203

Life of Thomas Hardy, The
,
123
n

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,
45
n

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),
151
n

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