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...butterfly image becomes three-dimensional in the final 13 plates as the women struggle to overcome the constraints of a male-dominated society. Virginia Woolf and O'Keefe, for example, the last two women at the table, strive to lift themselves off their plates, yet, as Chicago notes. "All women represented are still contained within their place setting." Women must continue to struggle, she believes, to create, someday, an equalized world, in which women's achievements as well as men's will "shape the world's destiny...
Mansfield's life was an even more ill-matched jumble than her work. The daughter of a prosperous New Zealand business leader, she had "gone every sort of hog since she was 17," as Virginia Woolf put it. That included a string of lesbian as well as heterosexual affairs, a pregnancy and miscarriage and a bizarre episode in which she married a singer whom she had known for three weeks, then abandoned him on their wedding night. In her first eight years in England she had 29 postal addresses, not counting excursions to Europe. She compartmentalized her life, playing...
...uphold France's literary standards, it has barred its doors to women. But now the "Immortals" have voted to breach France's macho line by admitting Novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, 76, author of Hadrian's Memoirs and acclaimed translator of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Though Yourcenar holds U.S. as well as French citizenships and has lived in Maine for 30 years, what bothered the twelve who opposed her was principally her gender. Philosopher Jean Guitton, 78, grumbled that bringing a woman into the academy "is like putting a dove in the rabbit hutch. One inhabitant like that...
...Keep a diary and some day it'll keep you," said that great American philosopher Mae West. But it is the Eng lish who have a unique talent for scribbling to themselves. To the long list that includes Samuel Pepys, James Boswell and Virginia Woolf must now be added the name of Cecil Beaton, who died last month at 76. For half a century he roamed the halls of fashion and fame with a folding Kodak and an acidulous...
Throughout, Beaton writes with a gift for image and metaphor. One woman has skin "as bright and smooth as the inside of a shell"; another "exudes the friendliness and sympathy of a firelit tea in winter." Virginia Woolf compared her diary to a "disheveled, rambling plant." Beaton's is more like a topiary, carefully trimmed to his own aristocratic profile. - Gerald Clarke