Becoming the Ex-Wife
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Becoming the Ex-Wife
The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott
Gordon, Marsha
University of California Press
08/2024
314
Mole
9780520409637
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List of Illustrations
A Note on Name Usage
Introduction: "Maxims in the Copybook of Modernism"
1 * The Limited Life of a Dorchester Girl
2 * At Radcliffe: "A Pushy Lace-Curtain Irish Girl from Dorchester"
3 * First Husband, Lindesay Parrott: "Strange Moments of Tenderness and Pretty Constant Dislike"
4 * Modern Parenting
5 * Greenwich Village: The Path to Becoming a "Self-Sufficient, Independent, Successful Manager of Her Own Life"
6 * Hugh O'Connor: High Felicity on the "Road of No Rules"
7 * New Freedoms in the "Era of the One-Night Stand": The Ex-Wife Is Born
8 * Ursula Goes to Hollywood
9 * Second Husband, Charles Greenwood: "The Stupidest Thing I Ever Did in My Life"
10 * "Extravagant Hell"
11 * The Business of Being a Writer
12 * Third Husband, John Wildberg: The Faint Resemblance of Stability
13 * "The Monotony and Weariness of Living"
14 * Fourth Husband, Alfred Coster Schermerhorn: "Two Catastrophes Should Be Enough"
15 * Saving Private Bryan: The United States vs. Ursula Parrott
16 * Her "Breaks Went Bad"
17 * "Black Coffee, Scotch, and Excitement"
Afterword: Remembering a "Leftover Lady"
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Notes
Published Writings of Ursula Parrott
Bibliography
Index
A Note on Name Usage
Introduction: "Maxims in the Copybook of Modernism"
1 * The Limited Life of a Dorchester Girl
2 * At Radcliffe: "A Pushy Lace-Curtain Irish Girl from Dorchester"
3 * First Husband, Lindesay Parrott: "Strange Moments of Tenderness and Pretty Constant Dislike"
4 * Modern Parenting
5 * Greenwich Village: The Path to Becoming a "Self-Sufficient, Independent, Successful Manager of Her Own Life"
6 * Hugh O'Connor: High Felicity on the "Road of No Rules"
7 * New Freedoms in the "Era of the One-Night Stand": The Ex-Wife Is Born
8 * Ursula Goes to Hollywood
9 * Second Husband, Charles Greenwood: "The Stupidest Thing I Ever Did in My Life"
10 * "Extravagant Hell"
11 * The Business of Being a Writer
12 * Third Husband, John Wildberg: The Faint Resemblance of Stability
13 * "The Monotony and Weariness of Living"
14 * Fourth Husband, Alfred Coster Schermerhorn: "Two Catastrophes Should Be Enough"
15 * Saving Private Bryan: The United States vs. Ursula Parrott
16 * Her "Breaks Went Bad"
17 * "Black Coffee, Scotch, and Excitement"
Afterword: Remembering a "Leftover Lady"
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Notes
Published Writings of Ursula Parrott
Bibliography
Index
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American female writer biography;1920s America;20th century American literature;divorce;divorcee;modern woman novelist;fiction;feminist novel;short story writer;leftover ladies;Katherine Ursula Towle;jazz age;women we don't know about
List of Illustrations
A Note on Name Usage
Introduction: "Maxims in the Copybook of Modernism"
1 * The Limited Life of a Dorchester Girl
2 * At Radcliffe: "A Pushy Lace-Curtain Irish Girl from Dorchester"
3 * First Husband, Lindesay Parrott: "Strange Moments of Tenderness and Pretty Constant Dislike"
4 * Modern Parenting
5 * Greenwich Village: The Path to Becoming a "Self-Sufficient, Independent, Successful Manager of Her Own Life"
6 * Hugh O'Connor: High Felicity on the "Road of No Rules"
7 * New Freedoms in the "Era of the One-Night Stand": The Ex-Wife Is Born
8 * Ursula Goes to Hollywood
9 * Second Husband, Charles Greenwood: "The Stupidest Thing I Ever Did in My Life"
10 * "Extravagant Hell"
11 * The Business of Being a Writer
12 * Third Husband, John Wildberg: The Faint Resemblance of Stability
13 * "The Monotony and Weariness of Living"
14 * Fourth Husband, Alfred Coster Schermerhorn: "Two Catastrophes Should Be Enough"
15 * Saving Private Bryan: The United States vs. Ursula Parrott
16 * Her "Breaks Went Bad"
17 * "Black Coffee, Scotch, and Excitement"
Afterword: Remembering a "Leftover Lady"
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Notes
Published Writings of Ursula Parrott
Bibliography
Index
A Note on Name Usage
Introduction: "Maxims in the Copybook of Modernism"
1 * The Limited Life of a Dorchester Girl
2 * At Radcliffe: "A Pushy Lace-Curtain Irish Girl from Dorchester"
3 * First Husband, Lindesay Parrott: "Strange Moments of Tenderness and Pretty Constant Dislike"
4 * Modern Parenting
5 * Greenwich Village: The Path to Becoming a "Self-Sufficient, Independent, Successful Manager of Her Own Life"
6 * Hugh O'Connor: High Felicity on the "Road of No Rules"
7 * New Freedoms in the "Era of the One-Night Stand": The Ex-Wife Is Born
8 * Ursula Goes to Hollywood
9 * Second Husband, Charles Greenwood: "The Stupidest Thing I Ever Did in My Life"
10 * "Extravagant Hell"
11 * The Business of Being a Writer
12 * Third Husband, John Wildberg: The Faint Resemblance of Stability
13 * "The Monotony and Weariness of Living"
14 * Fourth Husband, Alfred Coster Schermerhorn: "Two Catastrophes Should Be Enough"
15 * Saving Private Bryan: The United States vs. Ursula Parrott
16 * Her "Breaks Went Bad"
17 * "Black Coffee, Scotch, and Excitement"
Afterword: Remembering a "Leftover Lady"
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Notes
Published Writings of Ursula Parrott
Bibliography
Index
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