Ornament and silence : essays on women's lives / Kennedy Fraser.

Collection of 14 essays, most of which were originally published in t New Yorker (1987-1995) and Vogue (1992-1995).

Ornament and silence : Virginia Woolf -- Going on : Nina Berberova -- Warmed through and through : Edith Wharton -- My sister, myself -- A normal man : Henri Matisse and his women -- Love, longing, and letters : Louise Colet -- Traps and damask roses -- Fritillaries and hairy violets : Miriam Rothschild -- Stones of his house : Paul Scott -- Valentina -- The poet of everyday life : Johannes Vermeer -- Meat -- Demented pilgrimage : Germaine Greer -- There at the New Yorker : the novel I never wrote for William Shawn.