French, Marilyn
French, Marilyn( 1929– ),New York City-born author, received a B.A. from Hofstra and a Ph.D. from Harvard, leading to her first book, The Book as World—James Joyce's “Ulysses” (1976). A later scholarly study is Beyond Power (1985), on the treatment of women for 2500 years. She has also written novels, The Women's Room (1977), a feminist view of a woman's life; The Bleeding Heart (1980), about an affair between two Americans in their forties, resident in England; Her Mother's Daughter (1987), about four generations of women in a family; and Our Father (1994), a novel about the lives of four half-sisters born of the same father, whose stroke is the occasion of their reunion. Scarcely having known each other before, they discover that their father had raped each as a young girl. Season in Hell (1998) is a memoir.
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