In these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often rendered them invisible.
Fraser offers vibrant portraits of the Russ.
We meet Flaubert\'s theatrically importunate mistress, Louise Colet, the one woman who could briefly slip past the master\'s misogyny.
In Ornament and Silence we see Virginia Woolf, haunted and eventually destroyed by the sexual secrets of her childhood.
In these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often rendered them invisible