I wish she’d been a dog
Elaine Showalter, 7 February 1991
Jean Stafford: The Savage Heart
by Charlotte MargolisGoodman.
Texas, 394 pp., $24.95, May 1990,0 292 74022 0 Show More
by Charlotte MargolisGoodman.
Texas, 394 pp., $24.95, May 1990,
Jean Stafford: A Biography
by David Roberts.
Chatto, 494 pp., £16.95, August 1988,0 7011 3010 5 Show More
by David Roberts.
Chatto, 494 pp., £16.95, August 1988,
“... its shrill theme is “failed promise”, if not outright “tragedy”.’ In contrast, Charlotte MargolisGoodman’s Jean Stafford: The Savage Heart is a respectful literary biography written from a feminist perspective, which draws extensively on Stafford’s unpublished novels and stories in the ... ”
