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French, Marilyn
French, Marilyn (1929–), New York City‐born author, received a B.A. from Hofstra and a Ph.D. from Harvard, leading to her first book, The Book as World—James Joyce's “Ulysses” (1976). A later scholarly study is Beyond Power (1985), on the treatment of women for 2500 years. She has also written novels, The Women's Room (1977), a feminist view of a woman's life; The Bleeding Heart (1980), about an affair between two Americans in their forties, resident in England; Her Mother's Daughter (1987), about four generations of women in a family; and Our Father (1994), a novel about the lives of four half‐sisters born of the same father, whose stroke is the occasion of their reunion. Scarcely having known each other before, they discover that their father had raped each as a young girl. Season in Hell (1998) is a memoir.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "French, Marilyn." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "French, Marilyn." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-FrenchMarilyn.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "French, Marilyn." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-FrenchMarilyn.html |
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