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From one of The New Yorker ’s most revered writers comes “a brilliant collection” ( The New York Times Book Review ) about women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families—from Virginia Woolf and Flaubert’s mistress to Russian novelist Nina Berberova and English naturalist Miriam Rothschild. In these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often rendered them invisible. In Ornament and Silence we see Virginia Woolf, haunted and eventually destroyed by the sexual secrets of her childhood. We meet Flaubert's theatrically importunate mistress, Louise Colet, the one woman who could briefly slip past the master's misogyny. Fraser offers vibrant portraits of the Russian novelist Nina Berberova and the English naturalist Miriam Rothschild. And here is Fraser herself, learning her craft at The New Yorker, tending her English garden and—on every page—delighting us with the manifold felicities of her prose.

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Author

Kennedy Author Fraser

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375701122

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.6 / 5 (61 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14