I wish she’d been a dog
Elaine Showalter, 7 February 1991
Jean Stafford: The Savage Heart
by Charlotte Margolis Goodman.
Texas, 394 pp., $24.95, May 1990,0 292 74022 0 Show More
by Charlotte Margolis Goodman.
Texas, 394 pp., $24.95, May 1990,
Jean Stafford: A Biography
by David Roberts.
Chatto, 494 pp., £16.95, August 1988,0 7011 3010 5 Show More
by David Roberts.
Chatto, 494 pp., £16.95, August 1988,
“... went soddenly to bed – soddenly, but not too far to lose their conceit. And then all day I’d cook and wash the dishes and chop the ice and weed the garden and type my husband’s poems and quarrel with him. Nevertheless, when he finally left her for another woman, Stafford had a complete breakdown and went into the Payne Whitney clinic for nearly a ... ”