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...supplement a more general history. The most requested papers recently have been those of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a nineteenth century feminist theoretician who believed economic independence to be the foremost need of all women. But perhaps more important, in a study King did recently of the Schlesinger Library's manuscript users, she found four subjects--education and educated women, employment and working class women, feminism and suffrage, and the woman and her body--overwhelmingly sought after at the Institute. She says the figures indicate the Library's current resources as well as the drift of public interest, and that some...
...comes Sleeping Murder, the other manuscript that slumbered in the vault for roughly 40 years. It has a switcheroo, all right. The good news is that Miss Marple does not die at all. Instead she was last seen looking out on the harbor at Torquay (where Agatha Christie was born). Less welcome is the news that in this final book she barely comes to life...
...morning in 1932, Robert Denoël, partner in a small Paris publishing house, found on his desk an anonymously delivered brown paper parcel. The 500-plus-page manuscript it contained proved to be quite possibly the most vital -and certainly the most controversial -French novel since Proust's Remembrance of Things Past...
When Denoël, bludgeoned and awed by his unsolicited masterpiece, finally tracked down its author, he turned out to be equally original. In this persistent rather than brilliant biography, British Scholar Patrick McCarthy (who now teaches at Haverford College) patiently matches the manuscript...
Judith Guest, 40, housewife and mother of three sons, living in Edina, Minn., sat down one day like a lot of other housewives to write a novel. The only difference is, her self-addressed brown envelope did not keep coming back. After two tries it became the first unsolicited manuscript to be published by the Viking Press since...