The Company of Women

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The Company of Women (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)

Form and Content

The Company of Women is set in the 1960’s and 1970’s, when institutions, traditional authorities, and mores were under attack. Initially removed from such inquiry, the novel’s plot, like that of Mary Gordon’s first novel, Final Payments (1975), evolves through a pattern of “closed world,” “opened world,” and “redefined world.” The three-part story, organized around 1963, 1969-1970, and 1977, spans fourteen years in the lives of Felicitas Maria Taylor (from ages fourteen to twenty-eight); a group of five working women including...

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• The Company of Women (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

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• Mary Gordon (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Mary Gordon (Short Fiction)
• Mary Gordon (Long Fiction)