Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose [Who Do You Think You are?] | Techniques
The history of the prepublication revision that shaped The Beggar Maid supports the many critics who suggest readers approach the book as a story cycle, that is, as ten independent interdependent stories which invite the reader to construct and reconstruct interconnected patterns of recurring characters, images, motifs, and themes. (Further support for this claim comes from the fact that eight of the stories were published separately in a variety of magazines prior to being collected and arranged in the cycle.) In brief, the first version of the book contained a group of third-person...
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