Silences (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Tillie Olsen
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Culture, Authors or writers, Literature, Manners or customs, Writing, Feminism, Women’s issues, Oppression, Creative process, Ambition, Censorship
Written to “re-dedicate and encourage” writers, Silences is a compendium of essays, quotations, and commentaries devoted to the reasons various writers either have not written more or have not written at all. It includes two essays written by Tillie Olsen, her afterword to a reprinting of Rebecca Harding Davis's 1861 novel Life in the Iron Mills, and more than 150 pages of commentary and original source material relating to the “silences” of many well-known authors, such as Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Virginia Woolf, and Herman Melville. Olsen calls this...
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