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008    100119s2010    nyua     b    001 0 eng   
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020    9780715639092|qUK|qhardback 
020    0715639099|qUK|qhardback 
020    9781590202388|qUS 
020    1590202384|qUS 
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035    (OCoLC)502415521|z(OCoLC)426804413 
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100 1  McDowell, Lesley. 
245 10 Between the sheets :|bthe literary liaisons of nine 20th-
       century women writers /|cLesley McDowell. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bOverlook Press,|c2010. 
300    365 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-354) and 
       index. 
505 0  The "companion" : Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton 
       Murry -- The "novice" : H.D. and Ezra Pound -- The 
       "mother" : Rebecca West and H.G. Wells -- The "ingénue" : 
       Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford -- The "mistress" : Anaïs 
       Nin and Henry Miller -- The "long-termer" : Simone de 
       Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre -- The "survivor" : Martha 
       Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway -- The "chaser" : Elizabeth 
       Smart and George Barker -- The "wife" : Sylvia Plath and 
       Ted Hughes. 
520    Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a 
       marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda 
       Doolittle want to marry Ezra Pound when she was attracted 
       to women? Why did Simone DeBeauvoir pimp for Jean-Paul 
       Sartre? The list of the damages done in each of these 
       sexual relationships between female writers and their male
       literary partners is long, but each relationship provokes 
       the same question: would these women have become the 
       writers they became without the experience of their own 
       particular literary relationships? Focusing on the diaries,
       letters, and journals of each woman, this work explores 
       nine famous literary liaisons of the twentieth century. 
       The author examines the extent to which each woman was 
       prepared to put artistic ambition before personal 
       happiness, and how dependent on their male writing 
       partners these women felt themselves to be. She probes the
       consequences of the women's codependence and reveals how 
       in many instances, their partnerships liberated unspoken 
       desires, encouraged artistic innovations, and even shored 
       up literary reputations. Fascinating and innovative, this 
       book is an invaluable addition to libraries of literary 
       criticism and feminism. 
650  0 Women authors|y20th century|xRelations with men. 
650  0 Women authors|y20th century|vBiography. 
650  0 Women and literature|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Man-woman relationships. 
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