Stafford, Jean - Guy Davenport (review date 1969)
Guy Davenport (review date 1969)
SOURCE: A review of The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, in The New York Times Book Review, February 16, 1969, pp. 1, 40.
[In the review below, Davenport discusses the major themes in The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, focusing on her portrayal of American women. ]
By all rights, Jean Stafford says in her introduction to these 30 brilliant stories [The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford] selected from her work of the past 25 years, she might have been expected to become a regional writer. She grew up in Colorado, her father wrote cowboy stories, and her cousin Margaret Lynn was the author of A Stepdaughter of the Prairie, a memoir of frontier days in Kansas.
Miss Stafford's career took a different turn. "As soon as I could," she says, "I hotfooted it across the Rocky Mountains and across the Atlantic Ocean." She has written stories set in France and Germany,...
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