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Eudora Welty's work often includes images of or references to sewing and needlework. Whether in its depictions of quilts in Delta Wedding or turbans in her humorous essay "Women!! Make Turban in Own Home!," Welty's work frequently draws upon themes of needlework as a source of self-expression and community for women. In addition, Welty's approach to the act of writing lends itself to needlework metaphors and descriptors, including her literal use of straight pins in her revision process. For instance, in her 1978 interview in The Southern Quarterly, interviewer Martha van Noppen asks Welty about her use of straight pins to rearrange, cut, and transpose sections of her writing, and then enquires about whether Welty was ever a seamstress. Welty replies, "Oh, I have cut out things with patterns. No, I'm not a seamstress, but I have made things, and that is the way you make things, of course.... When you grew up in the Depression, you learned all kinds of tricky sorts of things. I mean, I made my clothes. They must have looked like the end of the world, but that was a way to do" ("A Conversation" 244-45). In this interview, Welty talks about learning to sew from her mother, and how the

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Author

Monica Carol Miller

Publisher

Project MUSE

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)