Miss Marks and Miss Woolley
Author | : Anna Mary Wells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1978 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105037280703 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Download or read book Miss Marks and Miss Woolley written by Anna Mary Wells and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It reached fruition before either woman suspected that there was anything socially unacceptable or abnormal in love between women. That realization probably came first to Marks, and she made an effort to break away. The failure of that effort, and the subsequent attempts to conform to social norms without relinquishing their binding affection, was costly for both women. Based on letters recently discovered among the Mary Emma Woolley Papers willed to the Mt. Holyoke Library by Marks--letters still in their original envelopes, addressed in Woolley's hand or Marks's difficult scrawl, neatly wrapped, labeled and dated for all the years of their involvement--this book recreates a relationship that caused enough gossip at the time to insure the appointment of a man to succeed Woolley, thus outraging every feminist in the land.