The Golden Notebook (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Doris May Taylor
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1940’s-1950’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Self-discovery, Mothers, Parents and children, Intellectuals, Communism or communists, Politics, Socialism, Love or romance, Gender roles, Self, Authors or writers, Literature, 1940’s, Friendship, Writing, Novelists, Women’s issues, Single parents or single-parent families, Women, Creative process, London, Lifestyles
- Locales: London, England
Places Discussed
Molly’s house. London home of Molly Jacobs, in which most of the novel’s action is set. Molly’s house and Anna’s apartment are interior spaces that function as containers for the heroines’ emotional lives. Although the two friends refer to themselves as “free women,” they recognize the confines that their culture and their own thinking about gender relationships place on their actions and emotions. They are as enclosed by cultural conventions as they are by the spaces they inhabit.
When Anna and Molly are living together in the house,...
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