Fraser, Kennedy. <br/><br/>
Ornament and silence :  essays on women's lives / 
Kennedy Fraser. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Knopf,  1996. 
 - xv, 247 p. ;  25 cm. 
 - 809/.89287 .
<br/><br/> Collection of 14 essays, most of which were originally published in t New Yorker (1987-1995) and Vogue (1992-1995). 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0394585399 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women authors.<br/>Women artists.<br/>Authors' spouses.<br/>Artists' spouses.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809/.89287