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Interview with Major Edith Vowell Part 2
No full textAnna Maria Island author included Major Edith Vowell in his book, Combat Nurses of World War II. Here she tells her story, with adventures in Brisbane, Australia, on ships and a GI troop train. She also lists her postwar nursing postings
Major Edith Vowell 1
No full textThe Vowell family in Ellenton and children's lives with school and church. Along with family life, she tells of her higher education in a Birmingham, Alabama, nursing school. Anna Maria Island author Wyatt Blassingame included Major Vowell in his book "Combat Nurses of World War II"
Interview with Major Edith Vowell
No full textThe Vowell family in Ellenton and children's lives with school and church. Along with family life, she tells of her higher education in a Birmingham, Alabama, nursing school. Anna Maria Island author Wyatt Blassingame included Major Vowell in his book "Combat Nurses of World War II"
[News Clip: Edith Deen]
No full textVideo footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about author, columnist, and lecturer Edith Alderman Deen receiving an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Texas Women's University
Conversations with authors: Edith Pearlman
No full textA 2011 conversation with the author Edith Pearlman about her life and the inspiration for her work
Dangerous Domesticity: Gossip and Gothic Homes in Edith Wharton's Fiction
No full textIn the United States of the late nineteenth century, the home was increasingly discussed in terms of privacy and the domestic was viewed as a protected “feminine sphere.” Focusing on the work of an author almost synonymous with the literary depiction of homes, Edith Wharton, this article questions domestic myths of the US home. As a vehicle for its critique, it relies on a mode of communication that is firmly located in the domestic sphere and yet destabilizes its premises of privacy and sanctity: gossip. By analyzing the depiction of homes and the reliance on “idle talk” as both content and narrative technique in “The Lady's Maid's Bell,” The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and Summer, the article shows how Wharton exposes the feminine sphere as a dangerous place. To this end, she combines elements of Gothic fiction that subvert the domestic ideal with depictions of homes that are porous to gossip, which both uncovers abuses and invites them. Concentrating her attention on female protagonists (rather than enfranchised white men), Wharton paints a drastically different picture of the home and the possibility of shielding the private from economic or public concerns than evoked in contemporary legal and journalistic discourses.https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/editwharrevi.35.1.0022?seq=1Copyright © 2019 by The Pennsylvania State University. This article is used by permission of the Pennsylvania State University Press
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