Word: ladyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Supposedly based on an actual "scandale amourouse" in pre-war Vionna, centers around a handsome artist who does sketches for the less respectable magazines. His portrait of an indiscreet but fashionable lady, clad only in a muff and a mask, is published by mistake, and all Vienna is agog. To...
Caroline Durieux, a genteel Creole lady from the seedy Bohemia of New Orleans' French Quarter, grew depressed at the closed shutters and slatternly denizens of Bourbon Street where she lives, and painted a picture of several chinless, crop-headed characters, melancholy as bloodhounds with distemper. This she labeled Unemployed...
Cable cars look like the Toonerville Trolley, have open sides with seats facing out (which bothers women with short skirts on San Francisco's frequent gusty days). In the middle stands the gripman holding a lever like an oversized emergency brake. It goes through the floor and under the...
The Woman. Of the Englishwomen of letters before Virginia Woolf (Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes) none had her advantages. She was brought up as a young lady of the Edwardian era, with all a young lady's privileges but no prunes and prisms. She was too delicate to...
Virginia Woolf sympathizes with "Mrs. Jones in the alley." She would even like Mrs. Jones to be able to read her books, but thinks on the whole "it is better to be a lady." Lady or not, feminist or not, woman or not, she believes that to be a good...