They all want to do something, to make some contribution, even if it is just Just because they have gotten an education, something relatively rare for women at that time, all leave school with a sense of purpose. But what I find so interesting is that the Vassar women of 1933, This brings us to the inevitable comparison to “Girls,” a show I have, unfortunately, watched too infrequently to count myself an expert on. Sphere.” There are ladylike attainments to which women still aspire, but in the ’60s, McCarthy seemed to have no idea that that sphere would come to include law-partnerships, combat and alimony for And that’s a value that still seemed important to McCarthy in 1963, which might point to a limitation in her concept of the “feminine Woman, I think, was being a lady (even during your first sexual experience). Not that there is anything wrong with that! But an essential aspect of being a Vassar It was still of great concern for her to be seen as … a lady, and a good hostess, and a person who can choose wallpaper.
It also makes me think that, whatever her accomplishments, whatever her literary and sexual (and literary-sexual) daring, That sounds a bit like McCarthy herself describing one of her heroines, with those long lists. Tablecloth, magna of champagne, Flemish dining room groups of fruit.” … We had an incredible picnic on the grass of Saint Cloud, with the Spenders, Sonia Orwell, the Life photographer, minor expatriates, minor embassy officials, a 16-foot Polish Recounted a recent visit with McCarthy and her husband in Paris: “A lovely apartment, William Morris wallpaper, every item clean as a ship, meals planned and worked on for days … everything performedĪnd executed to the last inch. To give a sense of what McCarthy’s own life was like when “The Group” was published, it’s interesting to read a letter that Robert Lowell wrote to Elizabeth Bishop in August 1963. A regular discussion with Ginia Bellafante.
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